Swedish court rejects delay of Assange hearing over ill-health

STOCKHOLM: A Swedish court has rejected a request to postpone a planned hearing to rule on the detention in absentia of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged rape, a defence lawyer for Assange said on Tuesday .

"One of the reasons is that Assange's health situation on Friday was such that it was not possible to conduct a normal conversation with him," Samuelson said. The Uppsala district court, where the hearing is due to take place, was not immediately available for comment. A prosecutors' office spokesman declined to comment.Sweden reopened the rape investigation in early May. It was begun in 2010 but dropped in 2017 years after Assange took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy. Assange was arrested in London last month after spending seven years inside the embassy.

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