Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority the course of the legal proceedings was the claimed fear that Assange could ultimately be extradited to United States of America should he be sent to Sweden. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has stated that "the various forms of deprivation of liberty to which Julian Assange has been subjected constitute a form of arbitrary detention", calling for the case to be closed and Assange to be allowed to walk free. On 20 August 2010, two women, a 26-year-old living in Enköping and a 31-year-old living in Stockholm, jointly went to the Swedish police not seeking to bring
Julian Assange readers' choice award for person of the year, the "Time" readers' choice award for person of the year (he was also a runner-up in "Time's" overall person of the year award), a deal for his autobiography worth at least US$1.3 million, and selection by the Italian edition of "Rolling Stone" as "rockstar of the year". Assange announced that he would run for the Australian Senate in March 2012 under the new WikiLeaks Party, and "Cypherpunks" was published in November. In 2012, Assange hosted a television show on RT (formerly known as Russia Today), a network funded by the Russian government.