Sweden's
director of public prosecutions has decided to drop the rape investigation into
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
Marianne Ny filed
a request to the Stockholm District Court to revoke his arrest warrant,
apparently ending a seven-year stand-off.
Mr Assange, 45,
has lived in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since 2012, trying to avoid
extradition.
He feared being
extradited to the US if sent to Sweden. BBC reports
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