Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority limitations expiring for some of the allegations, the prosecutor relented and agreed to question Assange in the Ecuadorean embassy. The UK agreed to the interview in May awaiting Ecuadorean approval. Assange said he would go to Sweden if provided with a diplomatic guarantee that he would not be turned over to the United States, to which the Swedish foreign ministry stated that Sweden's legislation does not allow any judicial decision like extradition to be predetermined. However, the Swedish government is free to reject extradition requests from non-EU countries, independent of any court decision. Assange was arrested in his absence and
UK–US extradition treaty of 2003 about the level of proof required being less to extradite from the UK to the US rather than vice versa. Among other provisions Part 2 of the Act: Extradition to category 2 territories (non-European Arrest warrant territories) removed the requirement on the USA to provide "prima facie" evidence in extraditions from the UK, requiring instead only "reasonable suspicion". This was necessary to redress the previous imbalance against the USA under the 1870 Act, as the UK did not have to provide the more onerous "prima facie" evidence to extradite from the USA. The requirement for the UK is to show