LIVE: UN holds press briefing to discuss Assange verdict

The working group’s secretary Christophe Peschoux is due to speak at a press briefing to discuss the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s decision on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Geneva on February 5. The UN’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled, Friday, that Assange has been held arbitrarily in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. For the past three years Assange has lived in the embassy, where he took refuge in order to avoid extradition to Sweden on sexual offence charges. Ecuador has gra