Stockholm: Lawyers for Julian Assange​ have asked a Swedish court to overturn an arrest warrant for the Wikileaks founder following a ruling by a UN panel that his stay in Ecuador's London embassy amounts to arbitrary detention.

The panel called for Sweden and Britain to compensate the Wikileaks founder.

Julian Assange looks out from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he took refuge in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden. Credit:Getty Images

Mr Assange, 44, took refuge at the embassy in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations, which he denies, that he committed rape in 2010.

He says the accusation is a ploy that would eventually lead to his extradition to the United States, where a criminal investigation into the activities of WikiLeaks is still open.