Swedish prosecutors are set to announce whether they will reopen an investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Deputy director of public prosecutions Eva-Marie Persson will hold a press conference in Stockholm today to announce her decision.
Swedish prosecutors dropped a rape investigation in 2017 because they were unable to proceed while he remained holed up in London's Ecuadorean Embassy.
Assange also faced investigation for a second sex-related allegation, which was dropped in 2015 because time had run out. Assange denies the claims.
In another blow for Assange, the government of Ecuador has reportedly agreed to hand over the belongings he left at their embassy to the U.S.
The embassy will 'deliver to the US all his documents, mobile phones, computer files, computers, memory units, CDs and any other device', according to Spain's El Pais newspaper
The former hacker faces extradition to the United States over the activities of WikiLeaks.
After he was dragged out of the embassy last month, a lawyer for one of the women involved in the Swedish investigation, asked for it to be resumed.
Assange has been visited by Pamela Anderson and a United Nations official in high security Belmarsh Prison this week.
He is serving a 50-week sentence for failing to attend court.
In relation to the U.S. investigation, former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning yesterday said she'll refuse to testify before a second grand jury investigating WikiLeaks.
But if a judge finds her in contempt of court again, she could wind up back in jail.
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Manning spent seven years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. She walked free in May 2017 after President Barack Obama commuted her 35-year sentence.
Recently, she spent two months in jail for refusing to answer one grand jury's questions about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Now, a second grand jury has subpoenaed her.
She told CNN's 'Reliable Sources' on Sunday that she has nothing more to offer than what she's already provided in her own case.
US prosecutors announced this month that Assange had been charged with conspiring with Manning to infiltrate a Pentagon computer.
The charge carries a maximum of five years' imprisonment and relates to Assange's 'alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information' in US history, the court heard.
Prosecutors claim he assisted Manning in cracking a password to help her leak classified records to the whistleblowing website.
Classified documents allegedly downloaded included approximately 90,000 Afghan war-related significant activity reports, 400,000 Iraq war-related significant activity reports, 800 Guantanamo Bay detainee assessments and 250,000 US State Department cables, the court heard.
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