Australia appeals to Sweden over Assange. Ambassador Paul Stephens; An Assange supporter in London Published: 17 Feb 2011 16:21 GMT+01:00Updated: 17 Feb 2011 16:21 GMT+01:00 Australia's ambassador in Stockholm has written an appeal to Sweden's justice minister for assurances that Julian Assange, an Australian national, will be treated fairly should the WikiLeaks founder be extradited to Sweden. In a letter sent to Justice Minister Beatrice Ask last week, Australian ambassador Paul Stephens took up Assange's case, which the ambassador termed as "high profile".
"I am writing in relation to the situation concerning Mr. Julian Assange, an Australian citizen who is facing extradition to Sweden from the United Kingdom under the terms of a European Arrest Warrant," Stephens wrote to Ask last Friday. Stephens explained that Assange "has been detained in his absence" by a Swedish court on suspicions of having committed "a criminal offence". "I wish to convey the Australian Government's expectation that, should Mr. [August] WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in web furore over Swedish rape claim | Media.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said: 'I have been accused of various things in recent years, but nothing so serious as this.' Photograph: Scanpix Sweden/Reuters The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, was himself the subject of a rapidly spreading online story when news cascaded across the internet for several hours at the weekend mistakenly saying he was being sought in Sweden on rape charges. Before Stockholm's chief prosecutor made clear on Saturday afternoon that Assange was in fact neither charged with rape nor due to be arrested, the story had spread, generating more than 1,200 articles, available through internet news search, that received more than 1m hits.
"It was 7am when a friend who is Swedish and has been out on the net told me about the allegations," Assange told Stockholm daily newspaper Aftonbladet, which has hired him as a columnist : "It was shocking. I have been accused of various things in recent years, but nothing so serious as this. " [September] Rape charges reissued against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. [December] 'Sex by Surprise' at Heart of Julian Assange Criminal Probe.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been accused of "sex by surprise." Is that against the law in the United States? - By Jessica Grose. Julian Assange's lawyer told AOL News on Thursday that the WikiLeaks founder has been charged with "sex by surprise" in Sweden. Though the lawyer says he doesn't know what "sex by surprise" means, the Swedish prosecution office announced that they are charging Assange with "rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. " These charges allegedly stem from consensual sexual encounters with two separate women that became nonconsensual at some point during the act. (Update, Dec. 7, 2010: Julian Assange was arrested in Britain by an extradition unit on Swedish charges of unlawful coercion, sexual molestation, and rape.)
If this had happened in the United States, could Assange have been charged with a crime? Possibly. There used to be even more requirements for a woman to bring rape charges. Got a question about today's news? Explainer thanks University of Colorado law professor Aya Gruber. C'est quoi le "sexe par surprise" ? L’avocat de Julian Assange, cofondateur de WikiLeaks, arrêté mardi matin à Londres et en détention jusqu’au 14 décembre avant une possible extradition vers la Suède, a expliqué que son client « n’était pas poursuivi pour viol mais pour “sexe par surprise” ». What is « sex by surprise » ? Un sous-viol ? Me Mark Stephens, spécialiste des médias, précise que c’est une « qualification suédoise punie par une amende de 5 000 couronnes, soit environ 540 euros », qui considèrerait comme un délit le fait de refuser de mettre un préservatif.
Toujours selon le défenseur de l’Australien Assange, cette obscure incrimination n’existerait que sous les latitudes suédoises, en tous cas, « pas aux Etats-Unis, ni en Angleterre, ni même à Ibiza »... ni dans le code pénal suédois, après enquête, sommes-nous au regret d’écrire. Selon plusieurs sources amicales suédoises, « sex by surprise » serait une traduction d’un mot d’argot suédois « överraskningssex » utilisé pour plaisanter sur le viol, ou pour le nier. Assange conteste les accusations de viol. Le 20 août dernier, deux jeunes femmes qui disent avoir eu des relations sexuelles avec lui, lors de son passage en Suède, accusent, devant des policiers, Julien Assange, le porte-parole du site Wikileaks de violences et de viol.
L'enquête ouverte par un procureur est abandonnée puis relancée. Hier, Assange dénonce "un coup monté" et des "vengeances personnelles" sans vouloir confirmer ou infirmer avoir eu des relations avec elles. Le 1er septembre, le parquet suédois annonce dans un communiqué "Il y a des raisons de penser qu'un crime a été commis. Au vu des informations disponibles actuellement, mon jugement est que la caractérisation de ce crime est «viol»" Le lendemain Expressen publie, ce qu'il présente comme le fac-similé du compte rendu de l'interrogatoire d'Assange par un policier (qui s'est déroulé le 31 août), en présence de son avocat, Leif Silbersky, très connu en Suède. Abonnez-vous ! [November] Swedish prosecutors seek Assange arrest. 3 Big data security analytics techniques you can apply now to catch advanced persistent threats Updated The Swedish prosecutor leading an investigation of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is today seeking a court order for his arrest, so she can interrogate him on allegations of rape and molestation.
Marianne Ny indicated that efforts to question Assange on a voluntary basis have been unsuccessful. "The reason for my request is that we need to interrogate him. So far, we have not been able to meet with him to accomplish the interrogations," she said in a statement. Ny will this afternoon apply to Stockholm District Court to detain Assange, an Australian citizen, in his absence. His current whereabouts are unknown. The allegations, which Assange denies, first emerged in August, shortly after Wikileaks' release of tens of thousands of frontline intelligence reports from Afghanistan. The two alleged victims, reportedly Wikileaks supporters, met Assange during a visit to Sweden over summer. Defend Julian Assange. In the wake of a decision by Swedish prosecutors to issue an International warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on rape charges, WikiLeaks staff have authored an editorial in support of their leader and a call for his defense. By WikiLeaks Staff Editorial 18 November 10 Why Our Editor-in-Chief Is Busy and Needs to Be Defended n October 2010 Julian Assange won the Sam Adams Award for Integrity.
He has also been awarded the 2009 Amnesty International Media Award and the Economist Index on Censorship Award in 2008. It is important to remember that accolades such as these do not come without tremendous hard work. The expose of the Afghan War Diaries was a moment of media history, orchestrated by Julian Assange. Since 2007 Julian, WikiLeaks and the Sunshine Press have been behind international front page stories that have changed the world. Because of the nature of the work performed by WikiLeaks both the organization and Julian Assange are constantly under attack. [November] WikiLeaks Founder ‘Detained in Absentia’ in Swedish Rape Probe | Threat Level.
A Swedish judge has ordered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange “detained in absentia” to answer questions in a rape and coercion investigation in Stockholm, prosecutors announced Thursday. The investigation stems from encounters Assange had with two women during his visit to Sweden last August, where he was applying for Swedish residency and attempting to secure the protection of Swedish free-press laws for his secret-spilling website. According to local news reports, the woman told investigators the sexual encounters began as consensual, but turned non-consensual when Assange refused to stop despite condom mishaps.
Assange has denied any wrongdoing, and hinted that the complaints are the result of a U.S. plot against WikiLeaks — leading some supporters of the group to publicly investigate the two women and their families. Swedish Director of Prosecution Marianne Ny will next seek an international arrest warrant for Assange, according to a statement on the prosecutors’ website. See Also: [December] Interpol issues wanted notice for Julian Assange | Media. The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is tonight facing growing legal problems around the world, with the US announcing that it was investigating whether he had violated its espionage laws. Assange's details were also added to Interpol's worldwide wanted list.
Dated 30 November, the entry reads: "sex crimes" and says the warrant has been issued by the international public prosecution office in Gothenburg, Sweden. "If you have any information contact your national or local police. " It reads: "Wanted: Assange, Julian Paul," and gives his birthplace as Townsville, Australia. Friends said earlier that Assange was in a buoyant mood, however, despite the palpable fury emanating from Washington over the decision by WikiLeaks to start publishing more than a quarter of a million mainly classified US cables. He was said to be at a secret location somewhere outside London, along with fellow hackers and WikiLeaks enthusiasts. Assange's reluctance to emerge in public is understandable. Fiche Interpol | ASSANGE, JULIAN PAUL. Assange omniprésent (presse internationale) La Cour suprême suédoise confirme le mandat d'arrêt d'Assange.
Arrest by British police expected in days - Home News, UK. The Independent revealed yesterday that a procedural error with the European Arrest Warrant had delayed the arrest of the 39-year-old Australian, who is wanted in Sweden over sexual allegations but has been in England since October. Police in Gothenburg claim they have now submitted a fresh warrant to the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
Soca is expected to instruct Scotland Yard to arrest Mr Assange and have him appear before an extradition hearing – although as of last night the Metropolitan Police had yet to receive the warrant. Police sources have previously said that they received a letter from Mr Assange's UK-based lawyer, Mark Stephens, containing information about how to contact Mr Assange should they need to.
Details of the new arrest warrant came as a last-ditch attempt to have the allegations against Mr Assange dropped failed. Sweden's highest court upheld the arrest order and refused to let him appeal against a lower court's ruling. [December] As WikiLeaks founder turns himself in, will the cyber leak war end? Julian Assange, the founder of WikilLeaks, is planning to turn himself into police to face questioning over allegations of rape and other crimes in Sweden.
The question is whether that will end the cyber leak war that has been happening for weeks. The case is a test of just how far internet freedoms can go, since WikiLeaks has come under fire from governments around the world for making classified documents public on the internet. It’s unclear whether such leaks would continue if Assange is arrested and prosecuted, although Assange has said himself that if anything happens to him, further sensitive documents would automatically go live. Newspapers have reported that Assange is expected to hand himself into police as early as Tuesday, after the Swedish authorities issued a European Arrest Warrant. Assange has been hiding in the southeast of England. The development follows news that Swiss authorities have closed down one of Assange’s bank accounts. Julian Assange to be questioned by British police | Media. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is expected to appear in a UK court today after his lawyers said he would meet police to discuss a European arrest warrant from Sweden relating to alleged sexual assaults.
As the legal net continued to close around the whistleblowers' website and the US attorney general, Eric Holder, said he had authorised "a number of things to be done" to combat the organisation, Assange appeared to be reconciling himself to a lengthy personal court battle to avoid extradition to Sweden. Jennifer Robinson, a solicitor with Finers Stephens Innocent, which represents the Australian freedom of information campaigner, told the Guardian: "We have a received an arrest warrant [related to claims in Sweden]. We are negotiating a meeting with police. " Another lawyer representing Assange, Mark Stephens, added: "He has not been charged with anything. Stephens explained that the interview would happen in the "foreseeable future" but he could not give a precise time. Assange could face espionage trial in US - Crime, UK.
Mr Assange is in a British jail awaiting extradition proceedings to Sweden after being refused bail at Westminster Magistrates’ Court despite a number of prominent public figures offering to stand as surety. His arrest in north London yesterday was described by the US Defence Secretary Robert Gates as “good news”, and may pave the way for extradition to America and a possible lengthy jail sentence. The US Justice Department is considering charging Mr Assange with espionage offences over his website’s unprecedented release of classified US diplomatic files. Several right-wing American politicians are pressing for his prosecution and even execution, with Sarah Palin, the former vice-presidential candidate, saying he should be pursued the same as al-Qa’ida and Taliban leaders.
The Swedish government seeks Mr Assange’s extradition for alleged sexual offences against two women. "I am aware of the offences and I am also aware of quite a lot of the detail around the offences,” said Mr Pilger. The "Sex Crime" That Julian Assange Was Just Arrested For Wasn't Rape. It Was... The "sex crimes" against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange that led to an international manhunt, and, now, his arrest, have always seemed, if not false, lame. Basically, it seemed as though two Swedish fans that Assange charmed into the sack were mortified to discover that he actually wasn't that into them. But then Interpol launched its manhunt, rendering Assange a cross-border fugitive.
So it seemed the "sex crimes" might be more serious than initially thought. But what are they? They're not "rape," everyone agrees (at least as of a few days ago)--because the sex was consensual. They also aren't unspecified "molestation. " What they appear to be is a violation of a Swedish law against "having sex without a condom. " Interestingly, even that charge doesn't appear to precisely apply in this case. A condom was apparently used--initially. That DEFINITELY sounds like a job for Interpol. See Also: Check Out The Amazing Bombshelter Fortress Where Wikileaks's Servers Are Now Stored. Julian Assange n’est pas un “violeur” - BUG BROTHER - Blog LeMonde.fr. MaJ du 9/12/2010 : ce billet était initialement titré "WikiLeaks: Julian Assange n'est pas un "violeur"", et faisait suite à un "coup de gueule" filmé avant que ne soient rendues publiques les charges retenues contre Julian Assange.
Au vu de celles-ci, je modifie donc le titre du billet, que j'ai mis à jour hier : la façon dont certains médias relaient les accusations dont fait l'objet WikiLeaks, sans les recouper ni les contextualiser, est critiquable; mais, et si les accusations dont il fait l'objet sont confirmées, le comportement de Julian Assange est, sinon condamnable (en droit suédois en tout cas qui, seul à ma connaissance, prévoit de sanctionner le "sexe par surprise"), il mériterait tout du moins un débat contradictoire... Interpol tient par ailleurs à préciser que "toute personne recherchée en vue d’arrestation doit être considérée comme innocente jusqu’à ce que sa culpabilité ait été démontrée". Les rapports sexuels étaient consentis Depuis, c'est la curée. 6. [December] Julian Assange in court today to appeal for release | Media. Julian Assange freed on bail: live updates | News. Libéré sous caution, Julian Assange reste en prison - Monde.
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