https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arbitrarily detained by both Sweden and Britain, says a Geneva-based UN panel, which called on both countries to release him and pay him compensation. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160205/un-panels-calls-for-assange-to-be-freed Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:50:46 +0100 un-panels-calls-for-assange-to-be-freed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will agree to be questioned by Swedish prosecutors in London over rape allegations, but only if he is given access to the investigation files, his defence lawyer said in Geneva on Monday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150323/assange-lawyer-in-geneva-calls-for-swedish-files Mon, 23 Mar 2015 23:01:39 +0100 assange-lawyer-in-geneva-calls-for-swedish-files A controversial Spanish former magistrate slammed Google in Geneva for handing over emails from Wikileaks staff to the FBI without informing the whistle-blowing website. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150127/wikileaks-lawyer-slams-google-for-data-sent-to-fbi Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:50:00 +0100 wikileaks-lawyer-slams-google-for-data-sent-to-fbi