stockholm<u+2014>wikileaks founder julian assange was questioned monday at the ecuadorean embassy in london about allegations he raped a woman during a visit to sweden in 2010, marking new movement in a long-frozen legal process. ecuador, which has been sheltering mr. assange since 2012, is allowing a swedish prosecutor to question mr. assange only after sweden agreed that an ecuadorean prosecutor would put the questions to mr. assange provided by the swedish side. according to a spokesman for the swedish prosecution service, the questions have been translated into spanish from swedish and are expected to be translated into english for mr. assange to answer. his answers would then be translated back into spanish before being sent to sweden to be translated into swedish. the spokesman added that the prosecution service didn<u+2019>t know how long it might take until the transcript was ready. three days have been allocated for the complex questioning, the latest twist in a long saga involving mr. assange. the founder of the secret-spilling site was granted asylum in the embassy after citing fears he might be extradited to the u.s. to face charges over his work. that work includes the release of thousands of secret u.s. military documents as well as emails detailing the internal deliberations of hillary clinton <u+2019>s presidential campaign. the u.s. hasn<u+2019>t charged mr. assange or requested his extradition. mr. assange denies the swedish rape allegation and hasn<u+2019>t been charged for it. sweden<u+2019>s director of public prosecutions, marianne ny, maintained until early 2015 that mr. assange must come to sweden to be questioned at a police station because interviewing him elsewhere would likely produce lower-quality evidence. but she changed her position after coming under pressure to speed up the evidence-gathering process. a senior prosecutor ingrid isgren, traveled to london to question mr. assange. ms. isgren and a swedish police official can be present but not question mr. assange directly. it was unclear what mr. assange<u+2019>s next step would be in the event that he is charged or the allegation is dropped. his lawyers couldn<u+2019>t immediately be reached for comment. write to charles duxbury at charles.duxbury@wsj.com
wikileaks founder julian assange questioned over 2010 rape allegation  - wsj
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