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(CNN) - The Swedish authorities decided to file the rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Sweden's deputy chief prosecutor announced Tuesday.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson made the announcement at a press conference in Stockholm on Tuesday.
The investigation against Assange was reopened in May 2019 after the Swedish authorities decided to suspend it in 2017. According to the Swedish Prosecutor's Office, a total of seven interviews with witnesses were conducted as part of this investigation during the summer of 2019.
Rape was one of the four accusations of sexual assault that the Australian faced after visiting Sweden in August 2010. In August 2015, the statute of limitations for three of the four accusations expired. Assange has denied all the accusations.
Assange is being held at Belmarsh Prison in London.
Julian Assange
