It wasn't dropped: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48253343 They did temporarily while he was hiding in the embassy (again, he was hiding from Sweden, not the US -- Obama didn't try to arrest him, Sweden did, and Assange ran), but now that he's out of hiding, it's reopened. David On Wed, Jul 7, 2021, 2:31 AM Peter Fairbrother <peter@tsto.co.uk> wrote:
On 07/07/2021 09:27, David Barrett wrote:
(Though Assange is actually imprisoned in the UK for skipping bail by hiding out in the Ecuadorian embassy for years to avoid rape charges -- which is a completely different matter that still needs to be settled.)
Perhaps so in actuality, but in law he has already served his sentence for breaking bail.
At present he is detained pending an appeal by the US against the refusal of his extradition. Unsurprisingly he is considered a flight risk, and has been refused bail.
Peter Fairbrother