ABC News Online: Julian Assange has rape investigation against him reopened by Swedish prosecutors
Swedish prosecutors have announced they are reopening an investigation into a rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
The investigation was requested by lawyers for a Swedish woman who alleges Assange raped her in 2010.
Assange, who denies the allegations, previously avoided extradition to Sweden after seeking refuge at the Ecuadorean embassy in London for seven years.
Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions, Eva-Marie Persson, told reporters through a translator that "there is still a probable cause to suspect that Assange committed a rape".
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