LIVE: UN holds press briefing to discuss Assange verdict

The working groups secretary Christophe Peschoux is due to speak at a press briefing to discuss the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions decision on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Geneva on February 5. The UNs 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