WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Swedish prosecutors have requested permission to question Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London over rape allegations and are waiting for a response, the Prosecution Authority said on Wednesday.

“It is not possible to estimate when we will receive an answer,” the prosecution authority said in a statement. It said the request was submitted recently, but did not specify when.

Questioning will be carried out by Chief District Prosecutor Ingrid Isgren and a police investigator.

Assange, 44, took refuge in Ecuador’s embassy in London in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations, which he denies, that he committed rape in 2010.

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