The Supreme Court of Sweden has rejected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s appeal that his detention order be annulled, concurring with a lower appellate court

According to a nine-page Swedish-language opinion released Monday, the Supreme Court found that there is no reason to reverse the order (Google Translate), with one of the five judges dissenting.

"We are of course disappointed and critical of the Supreme Court's way of handling the case," Assange's lawyer Per Samuelson told Reuters. “This decision has been taken without letting us close our argument."

Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for nearly three years, has been accused of but not formally charged with committing sex crimes in Sweden. He almost certainly will be arrested by British authorities and extradited to Sweden should he set foot outside the embassy. Assange and his lawyers argue that Swedish authorities will extradite him on to the United States where he would face prosecution for documents published on WikiLeaks.

As Ars reported previously in March 2015, the Swedish prosecutor leading the Assange investigation finally agreed to question him inside the embassy. The statute of limitations on the crimes Assange is suspected of committing will expire in August 2015.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecution, Marianne Ny, wrote on its website (Google Translate) that Ny had no further comment.