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Prosecutors in Sweden have said that they did not make a mistake when they issued an arrest warrant, which was later quickly withdrawn, for Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder, on sexual abuse charges. The country’s prosecution authority has dropped raped charges against him, but a separate molestation accusation is still under investigation. Assange, who has been criticised for leaking controversial documents on the US-led war in Afghanistan, told Al Jazeera that the accusations are part of a “smear campaign”. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Karin Rosander, from Sweden’s prosecution authority, affirmed that no errors had been made in launching the charges against Assange. [August 22, 2010]
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This interview shows perfectly the lunacy in this rather clumsy case of smear.
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TheBigOne0305
August 23rd, 2010 at 10:42 am
Nevertheless this case clearly seems to be part of an orchestrated campaign, but as far as I can tell the Swedish justice system was not the origin, but merely reacted to some rather serious allegations (rape is not laughing matter after all) in the usual way.
Anyway, best of luck to Assange and his team, may they keep on fighting the good fight
TheBigOne0305
August 23rd, 2010 at 11:08 am
The only real criticism that could be made, is the publication of the name of the accused (which is indeed very unusual for Swedish legal cases of this kind as far as I have heard). But I don’t think there is any evidence that the name was purposely and directly published by the prosecutor or any other justice official (although this could very well be the case) prior to the article that broke the news.
TheBigOne0305
August 23rd, 2010 at 11:54 am
I think so far the way this case was handled rather speaks for the quality of the Swedish legal system. The allegation (no matter how false in hindsight) were made and given the elusive nature of Assange issuing an arrest warrant was probably justified. As soon as an arrest warrant was clearly not necessary anymore as new information was uncovered it was dropped (I read somewhere that it took only 6 hours).
Kanelbullah
August 23rd, 2010 at 12:04 pm
I do apologies for beeing a swede… This affair stinks, and getting worse…
anthonzi
August 23rd, 2010 at 12:32 pm
You can’t call it a mistake if it’s a government agency.
morehate4uall
August 23rd, 2010 at 12:48 pm
i am far from a conspiracy nut , but this stinks
Iceman22742
August 23rd, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Unbelievable! All that is normal police procedure?
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