Sweden's sexual assault inquiry on Julian Assange is being pinched by time. (Reuters File Photo)
Stockholm, Sweden:
A UN panel ruling finding that Julian Assange's confinement in the Ecuadorean embassy in London amounts to illegal detention has no impact on the rape investigation against him in Sweden, the prosecution said on Thursday.
"The ruling from the working group has no formal significance for the ongoing investigation under Swedish law," the prosecution authority said in a statement.
"The ruling from the working group has no formal significance for the ongoing investigation under Swedish law," the prosecution authority said in a statement.
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