The rape investigation that was being conducted by the Swedish authorities against renowned whistleblower Julian Assange has been dropped.
This was announced by Sweden's prosecution authority which says that it would not continue with efforts to have the Wikileaks founder charged with rape.
“I want to inform about my decision to discontinue the preliminary investigation," Eva-Marie Persson, the chief deputy prosecutor said as quoted by CNN.
Assange is in Britain where he is serving a 50-week sentence for the offence of jumping bail and is fighting his extradition to the United States of America for publishing secret documents.
He was early this year ejected from the Ecuadorian embassy in the United Kingdom where he had been staying since 2012.
Ecuador said it had taken the decision to eject him because he had violated the embassy's rules and regulations.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the prosecutors had decided to drop the charges after it dawned on them that the interrogation of the whistleblower would not change the balance of evidence.
This will come as a victory for the embattled whistleblower who has long protested the rape charges, saying that they were politically motivated.
The development now removes one of the hurdles in his battles to gain freedom.