Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Speaks to the Press (Photo Creative Commons)

Wikileaks founder and Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange will be meeting with British police "by consent" to discuss the new arrest warrant has been issued by INTERPOL, according to his lawyer.

The lawyer, Mark Stephens, released the following statement:

Late this afternoon after close of business I got a call from the police who said that they had received an extradition request from Sweden. Their request is to interview Julian Assange. He's not been charged with anything. We are in the process of making arrangements to meet with the police by consent in order to facilitate the taking of that question and answer that is needed.

It'll happen in the foreseeable future.

The news comes on the same day that a Swiss bank account froze the assets of the Julian Assange Defense Fund.  The press release issued by Wikileaks reads as follows:

PRESS RELEASE
Tue 7 Dec 15.55 GMT

Julian Assange Defense Fund frozen.

The Swiss Bank Post Finance today issues a press release stating that it had frozen Julian Assange's defense fund and personal assets (31K EUR) after reviewing him as a "high profile" individual.

The technicality used to seize the defense fund was that Mr. Assange, as a homeless refugee attempting to gain residency in Switzerland, had used his lawyers address in Geneva for the bank's correspondence.

Late last week, the internet payment giant PayPal, froze 60Keur of donations to the German charity the Wau Holland Foundation, which were targeted to promote the sharing of knowledge via WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks and Julian have lost 100Keur in assets this week.

One of the most fascinating aspects of the Cablegate exposure is how it is throwing into relief the power dynamics between supposedly independent states like Switzerland, Sweden and Australia.

WikiLeaks also has public bank accounts in Iceland (preferred) and Germany.

Please help cover our expenditures while we fight to get our assets back.

http://wikileaks.ch/support.html

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