The Royal Court will examine WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's case on June 12, before that he will be under arrest, TASS reported.

The London Metropolitan Police Service arrested Julian Assange on Thursday morning in the Ecuadoran embassy where he was confined for the past seven years. Following his arrest, the US Department of Justice announced that the American authorities demanded that the UK extradited Assange, who is accused of conspiring to commit hacking offences and faces up to 5 years in prison. The US indicted Assange on conspiring with the former US Army soldier, American military intelligence analyst Bradley Manning who switched genders and got a name change to Chelsea.

In 2012, Assange sought refuge in London's Ecuadorian Embassy to escape extradition to Sweden, which had issued a warrant for his arrest on sexual harassment and rape charges. Assange dismissed the accusations as politically motivated. His worst fear was Sweden might extradite him to the United States, where he would face 35 years in prison or capital punishment for publishing classified State Department documents. The rape case was dropped in 2017 but the United Kingdom continued to insist that Assange be arrested over his failure to appear in court in London.