WikiLeaks founder 'wanted in Sweden for rape'

[Joe234]

WikiLeaks founder 'wanted in Sweden for rape'
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...20pN6abr1jgrig

WikiLeaks founder 'wanted in Sweden for rape'

(AFP) – 53 minutes ago

STOCKHOLM — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is wanted in Sweden where he has been accused of rape, the prosecutor's office said Saturday.

"Julian Assange is wanted for two different issues, one of them is that he's suspected of rape in Sweden," the director of communications Karin Rosander told AFP.

He was unable to say what the other accusation was or whether the search warrant was international.

According to the Swedish daily Expressen, the 39-year-old Australian is also wanted for assaulting a woman.

Assange was in Sweden last week, where he announced at a press conference that the whistleblower website was set to publish a final batch of 15,000 secret documents on the war in Afghanistan in "a couple of weeks."

[snusgetter]

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We're not talking Göteborg here are we?
And it's not Rapé No2, is it?

This is serious stuff, right?
Or just a WikiLeaks hunt?

Just making sure!!

[c.nash]

His defense is going to be she wanted it. She kept asked me if I had some Gotenbergs Rape, so I took her to a hotel and did my deed.

[desirexe]

I think he was set up...

[Snussles]

Update: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316

[bipolarbear1968]

Sweden withdraws warrant for WikiLeaks founder....

[GoVegan]

I bet it was some type of set up. Our government loves to yap about the right to free speech while they are diligently trying to take it away. One day, Julian Assange will be seen as a hero but unfortunately it will probably be longer after he dies.

[justintempler]

Swedish news.......... from Sweden

Sweden drops warrant for WikiLeaks founder

Published: 21 Aug 10 17:25 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/28504/20100821/

The warrant for the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been withdrawn, the Swedish Prosecution Authority has confirmed.

"I do not consider there to be any reason to suspect that he has committed rape," chief prosecutor Eva Finné said in a statement explaining her decision.

The statement was issued at 4.30pm on Saturday to confirm that Assange was no longer a suspect and is thus no longer required to contact the police.

"She (Eva Finné) has adjudged that he is not suspected of rape. There is thus no reason to retain a warrant for his arrest," Karin Rosander at the Prosecution Authority confirmed.

The Expressen daily had reported on Saturday morning that a warrant had been issued for the arrest of Julian Assange in connection with alleged incidents in Stockholm and Enköping.

A source close to the case told the newspaper that two women in their twenties went to the police in Stockholm on Friday to speak about their recent encounters with Assange.

The Prosecution Authority released a statement on Saturday morning in which it revealed that the warrant was based on “one report of rape and one report of molestation. A warrant has been issued for the person's arrest since there is a risk that he could hamper the investigation.”

Kristinn Hrafnsson, a colleague of Assange's who spoke to news agency AFP from Iceland earlier on Saturday, rejected the charges against Assange as a fabrication, but confirmed that Assange remained in Sweden and planned to turn himself in.

There has been widespread speculation in social media on Saturday that the allegations were completely unfounded and had an ulterior motive, an accusation that WikiLeaks, and comments attributed to them on Twitter, have also helped to forward.

"He didn't know of the charges until he read them in the *right wing tabloid Expressen* this morning", Hrafnsson said. "There are powerful organisations who want to do harm to WikiLeaks."

The WikiLeaks founder has also personally denied the accusations in an email to Stockholm daily Dagens Nyheter.

“Why these accusations are coming at this point in time is an interesting question. I haven't been contacted by the police. The allegations are false,” Julian Assange said.

Assange has spent time in Sweden over the last week as a guest of the Association of Christian Social Democrats. WikiLeaks chose to move its servers from the United States to Sweden in 2007 as Assange believed the site would benefit from Swedish laws protecting journalists' sources.

The pentagon recently called on WikiLeaks to halt the publication of 70,000 leaked classified documents from the US-led war in Afghanistan. But Assange instead vowed to press ahead with the publication of a further 15,000 secret documents.


TT/The Local (news@thelocal.se/08 656 6518)

Way to go Joe now you're posting right wing propaganda. I had no idea Expressen was considered a right wing tabloid.

[snusgetter]

I think Joe's changing his avatar:

[GoVegan]

I bet Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp are somehow involved in all this!

[Joe234]

Sweden Drops Rape Allegation Against WikiLeaks Founder Assange

Bloomberg
http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...r-assange.html

[justintempler]

I bet Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp are somehow involved in all this!

i'm betting James O'Keefe was involved...