WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange still faces arrest if he leaves the Ecuadorean embassy after a judge today upheld a British arrest warrant against him for skipping bail.

Senior district judge Emma Arbuthnot told Westminster magistrates’ court she considered that his arrest would be a “proportionate response” and not against the public interest.

Mr Assange has been living inside the embassy in Knightsbridge, central London, for more than five years for fear that, if he leaves, he could extradited to the US for questioning over the activities of the whistle-blowing website.