According to the Xinhua news agency, Swedish police said 20th that they have issued a U.S. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's international arrest warrant. Swedish national Criminal police official Tommy Cangasvielli said the same day that the police had "collected all information and issued a different system" the previous night, including the European Union visa restrictions on the Schengen Agreement Security Information Database, the International Criminal Police Organization. "Prosecutors have decided to issue an international arrest warrant to ensure that police organizations around the world receive it," he said. Interpol, based in Lyon, France, confirmed the arrest of the request for the extradition of Assange. According to Swedish prosecutors, Assange suspected in August this year in the Swedish capital of Stockholm rape, sexual harassment of two women, prosecutors began in September to file investigations. However, the Australian denies all charges against him and refuses to be investigated. A Swedish court 18th this month approved a warrant for the arrest of al-Assange. Mr. Assange's lawyer in London, Mark Steffens, said he was "amazed" by the court's early approval of an arrest warrant, which was scheduled to take place on 22nd. Steffens previously said Assange was in London 18th. But he 20th refused to state the whereabouts of the party. Assange's Swedish lawyer, Bjorn Huttig, filed an appeal 19th. Swedish media analysis, the Court of Appeal will soon accept the request and within a few days decide on the legality of the warrant. Assange, aged 39, created the WikiLeaks network in December 2006. This year, the site has announced a large number of Afghan war and Iraq war secret documents of the United States, exposing a lot of insider, causing a sensation.
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