--- description: Sweden’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday by Julian Assange to revoke an arrest warrant over sexual assault allegations. title: Sweden's Supreme Court Rejects Julian Assange Appeal image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c6a01bf52db2313/6987ef29cd1bbaa6cd6f95fa/julian-assange-wikileaks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [sweden](/tag/sweden/) ## sweden Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Sweden's Supreme Court Rejects Julian Assange's Sexual-Assault Appeal by [Helen Regan](/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 11, 2015 9:22 AM CUT  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures during a press conference inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Aug. 18, 2014 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures during a press conference inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Aug. 18, 2014John Stillwell—AFP/Getty Images by [Helen Regan](/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 11, 2015 9:22 AM CUT Sweden’s Supreme Court rejected an [appeal](http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/11/julian-assange-appeal-rejected-sweden-supreme-court "undefined") Monday by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to revoke an arrest warrant regarding allegations of sexual assault. The order was originally brought by Swedish prosecutors in 2010 following allegations Assange raped one woman and assaulted another. The 43-year-old has always denied the claims, insisting the encounters were consensual, reports Agence France-Presse. “The supreme court notes that investigators have begun efforts to question Julian Assange in London. The supreme court finds no reason to lift the arrest warrant,” Sweden’s top court said in a statement. Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012 after he fled there in order to avoid extradition to Sweden. Assange believes that if Britain extradites him to answer the charges, Sweden would then extradite him to the U.S., where he faces an investigation and many years in prison over the release of thousands of top secret diplomatic cables in 2010. \[[_AFP_](http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/11/julian-assange-appeal-rejected-sweden-supreme-court "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3853455/julian-assange-wikileaks-sweden-supreme-court-appeal-rejected/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3853455/julian-assange-wikileaks-sweden-supreme-court-appeal-rejected/"},"headline":"Sweden's Supreme Court Rejects Julian Assange's Sexual-Assault Appeal","datePublished":"2015-05-11T09:22:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:05:05.935Z","description":"The Swedish court finds \"no reason\" to lift detention order","url":"https://time.com/3853455/julian-assange-wikileaks-sweden-supreme-court-appeal-rejected/","keywords":["sweden","Supreme Court","Julian Assange","WikiLeaks","Appeal"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c6a01bf52db2313/6987ef29cd1bbaa6cd6f95fa/julian-assange-wikileaks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c6a01bf52db2313/6987ef29cd1bbaa6cd6f95fa/julian-assange-wikileaks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures during a press conference inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on August 18, 2014.","caption":"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures during a press conference inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on August 18, 2014.","creditText":"John Stillwell—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/sweden/","name":"sweden"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3853455/julian-assange-wikileaks-sweden-supreme-court-appeal-rejected/","name":"Sweden's Supreme Court Rejects Julian Assange's Sexual-Assault Appeal"}}]}] ```