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Lawyers for
Assange asked the court in February to overturn the warrant,
following a statement by a U.N. advisory panel that his stay in
Ecuador's London embassy amounts to "arbitrary detention".
Assange took refuge at the embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition
to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations,
which he denies, that he committed rape in 2010.
Sweden's Supreme Court in May last year rejected a previous
appeal to revoke the detention order.
(Reporting by Daniel Dickson; editing by Niklas Pollard/Jeremy
Gaunt)
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