WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is appearing via video link from the Ecuadorian embassy in London to respond to a UN working group's ruling that he be allowed to go free.
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention released its decision on the Assange case on Friday, urging the UK and Sweden to end the 44-year-old Australian's "deprivation of liberty" and restore his freedom of movement, and afford him the right to compensation.
Both governments have rejected the report with Britain saying the ruling changes nothing.
It says an arrest warrant is still in place and it still has an obligation to extradite him to Sweden if he leaves the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he has been holed up since 2012.
The Swedish Prosecution Authority said the statement from the UN group had "no formal impact" on its ongoing investigation.
