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		</div><p>Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have submitted papers to a Swedish court, asking for his arrest warrant to be overturned.</p>
<p>The move follows a decision by a United Nations panel that his stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London amounted to &#8220;arbitrary detention&#8221;.</p>
<p>His lawyer, Thomas Olsson, said a number of &#8220;new circumstances&#8221; had arisen which meant there was reason to review an earlier decision.</p>
<p>Mr Assange is wanted for questioning in Sweden over a sex allegation, which he denies, but believes that if he goes to Sweden he will be taken to the United States for questioning over the activities of WikiLeaks.</p>
<p>The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said earlier this month that Mr Assange should be free to leave the embassy in London.</p>
<p>Authorities in Britain and Sweden rejected the UN panel&#8217;s finding, saying Mr Assange had detained himself by seeking refuge in the embassy.</p>
<p>The UK Government says the panel has merely offered an opinion which is not legally binding.</p>
<p>Mr Assange has been living in the embassy in central London for more than three years after being granted political asylum by the Ecuador government.</p>
<p>Mr Olsson said the legal papers had been submitted to a Swedish court, with no indication of when a hearing might be held to consider the request.</p>
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