On Thursday, Swedish prosecutors revealed they would be dropping two of the charges against Julian Assange—that he molested and coerced two women in 2010—as the statutes of limitations in the investigation runs out at the end of August. The charge of rape against him still stands, and that investigation is ongoing.
Assange’s case has been lengthy and convoluted. After drawing ire for leaking a multitude of government documents on his site Wikileaks, Assange visited Sweden, where the alleged rape involving the two women took place, as CNN reports. After charges were pressed against him, in 2012, Assange headed to the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he was granted asylum from the charges, and was able to prevent being extradited to Sweden. Assange has held that he fears returning to Sweden because he’s worried the U.S. government will then extradite him to America in order to hold him accountable for the material he’s leaked.