Julian Assange Sweden Police Report Details Alleged Sexual Offenses

The New York Times:

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who was released from a British jail late last week, is facing a new challenge: the leak of a 68-page confidential Swedish police report that sheds new light on the allegations of sexual misconduct that led to Mr. Assange's legal troubles.

Read the whole story: The New York Times

Comments

[temenos]

04:01 AM on 12/21/2010

I wish everyone luck following your tortuous thinking processes.

[marbiol]

02:03 AM on 12/22/2010

well..the goal is to twist the politically correct progs in knots...so we 60s era libs can PREVAIL!!

[zelduh]

05:19 AM on 12/24/2010

Well, Marbiol, I am ceding to the wishes of the two flaggers. Consider your post raptured.

[Ergon]

01:29 PM on 12/20/2010

Reminds me of the "he claimed to be Jewish" rape case in Israel, which only served to make that country's judicial system look very, very, foolish.

[zelduh]

05:21 AM on 12/24/2010

That was indeed a silly case!

[mnkors]

08:53 AM on 12/20/2010

Legal language:

"We understand that both complainants admit to having initiated consensual sexual relations with Mr Assange. His Swedish lawyer has been shown evidence of their [women] text messages which indicate that they were concerned to obtain money by going to a tabloid newspaper and were motivated by other matters including a desire for revenge."

For those slavishly rushing to protect any authority from any accountability: The freedom of information is a right of the people; leaking information by Cheney (Plame affairs) and Swedish police (Assange affair) is a crime.

[j0n0]

08:15 AM on 12/20/2010

WOW...look at all of you attacking the Victims here...it's always easy to blame the women in a rape case...thats what you are all doing. How low have you sunk?

[1776 or 1984]

08:33 AM on 12/20/2010

How low has the US Government sunk that it did a smear op on a truth publisher.

You don't think the C I A hasn't run hundreds of these ops against foreigers who needed to be blackmailed, silenced or smeared?

Get a clue.

[j0n0]

10:24 AM on 12/20/2010

Truth Publisher? LOL... Really? He has published classified diplomatic cables stolen from the US that (so far) has only contained "routine" communications between US foreign offices and the US and you call him a Truth Publisher? LOL! Ahhhh...good one.

[american75]

08:54 AM on 12/21/2010

julie gettin a taste of his own medicine. hopefully one of the women was HIV positive

[mnkors]

08:58 AM on 12/20/2010

This is not a "rape case".
These two women never claimed to be raped.
However, Israeli gov't has a special program that pays internet spammers for "improving the reputation" of the state.

[I3edlam]

09:17 AM on 12/20/2010

It's no secret that every state operates under the same premise. It's all coke, in a different can. The advertising budget is the only thing that's different. Swap their places in the hiearchy of powers and you'd get more or less the same thing. States are a huge waste of human time, effort, and sanity.

[j0n0]

10:26 AM on 12/20/2010

So, ignore the point and attack the verbage. What are you, a defense lawyer?

“WOW...look at all of you attacking the Victims here...it'­s always easy to blame the women in a sexual assault case...tha­ts what you are all doing. How low have you sunk?”

Better? Now, without knowing any of the facts...without anyone getting their day in court...defend the treatment of the victims...

[blingladen]

07:53 AM on 12/20/2010

These women are starf**kers. They were quite content with their unique catch and what followed - read their Tweets, which they deleted after going to the police: "wow, I'm with so-and-so, how cool is that?". Up until they discovered he was just sleeping around, and had no intent of making either "Miss Wikileaks Star of the Week". Hell has no wrath than a woman scorned...
Add to that the very liberal Swedish interpretations of what "rape" is - in this case, the actual clause, which only exists in Sweden, is called "sex by surprise". A woman can accuse a man of rape, if some part of the sex act didn't coincide with her intentions or what she consented to - even if she didn't say no, or the man didn't use force, and simply didn't know he did something against her will.
This whole thing just reeks of foul play, and I doubt very much if it is on the side of mr. Assange.

[mellanmjolk]

10:26 AM on 12/20/2010

For the first part you are correct I believe, for the second part you have some details wrong, but in the whole it is quite correct.

[kinoptikation]

06:53 AM on 12/20/2010

The charges against Assange in Sweden are very charming like Sleeping Beauty's porn version whom instead of getting a kiss ...............................................................................SURPRISE!

[lastpost]

05:38 AM on 12/20/2010

“There are three persons who know for a fact that this has nothing to do with WikiLeaks, the C.I.A. or the Obama administration, and they are Julian Assange and my two clients,” he said.”
Then why not encourage all three to submit to an MRI monitored interrogation, Claes? Which would reveal the truth of the matter to all the rest of us, including you. Or is that far too simple a solution, for these convoluted circumstances?

[Littlegrr]

04:59 AM on 12/20/2010

These are the "rape" charges?

These women seem to be more upset about being "used" for sex. As a woman, I have been there and it really pisses you off, but get over it. You agreed to have sex, not get married or have a relationship which is what that seems to be what these two thought would happen. He's "not that into you", get over it.

[FogBelter]

03:57 AM on 12/20/2010

CIA has been working overtime for Justice it seems. Am I saying that the Justice System of Sweden has been contaminated by the politics of WikiLeaks? Indeed I am.

[SiameseTrainer]

02:43 AM on 12/20/2010

Way to taint a jury pool guys! I wonder how this is influencing that "secret" kangaroo grand jury that may or may not be pouring over statute books and reading chicken entrails trying to find a charge that might stick in Virginia? Why Virginia by the way? Why not Minneapolis, or Seattle, or hey, San Francisco !?

[29bela]

01:23 AM on 12/20/2010

"But the details in the police report and dozens of interviews in recent months with people in Sweden linked to the case suggest that the Swedish case could be less flawed than Mr. Assange’s supporters have claimed. As for the prosecutors’ actions, interviews with legal experts suggest that it would not be abnormal for such a high-level case to move up the hierarchy of prosecutors, with disagreements over how to apply Sweden’s finely calibrated laws on sexual misconduct."

So many witnesess of sexual act, all of them were present? O, my...!

[Chazmania]

01:33 AM on 12/20/2010

AND! the girl had a party for him the next day...ABSOLUTELY RUBBISH..
governments going after him vindictively and purposefully because they threaten the power structure..
And they are trying to do it on a trumped up charge of sex by surprise not "r@pe" he was NOT charged with r@pe because he did not R@PE ANYONE...its all a LIE

[mellanmjolk]

03:18 AM on 12/20/2010

No one accused him for rape in the meaning most of us mean with rape. The lawyers live in a different universe.
Try to understand that Assange started wikileaks and if that is a good thing or not has nothing to do with his private escapades. He is a man like most all other men and how many should say no to invitations from pretty (not in this case but taste is different) ladies? He should have we all know now but now is too late.
If you just read around a little more and get information you will see the world are not only black & white.

[epppie]

01:52 AM on 12/20/2010

"finely calibrated laws" appears to mean laws designed to facilitate politicized persecutions.

[Chazmania]

01:16 AM on 12/20/2010

If one was to judge America by its leaders at this point you would have to say that this is the most corrupted sick nation on the planet Besides ( !sr@l )..and yet i know it does NOT reflect the people of the country nor the many decent people of that other country i mentioned or all the other nations that have adopted fas!st governments and ignored their people...Brittan Sweden etc etc etc..

[29bela]

01:27 AM on 12/20/2010

Maybe it is not Americans who are creating this mess after all.

[Chazmania]

01:35 AM on 12/20/2010

Not the people the governments in collusion with the military complex and a certain foreign government that has infiltrated the highest offices of the American political system and this started in the 60's..WE the people ignore it at out peril.. fear and this denial are very dangerous...

[Sans Octavian]

01:06 AM on 12/20/2010

I am glad people are doing to Assange what he has been parading around doing for sometime now. There is no difference whatsoever in his actions as a leaker and those who have leaked information about him.

[Chazmania]

01:19 AM on 12/20/2010

RUBISH

[ForemostPanda]

04:49 AM on 12/20/2010

you're exactly right. he thinks he has a right to attack America and we don't have a right to retaliate.

[mnkors]

08:39 AM on 12/20/2010

We - the State Department? You are a very special "we," so please clarify in the future.

[sameasalways55]

01:00 AM on 12/20/2010

How dare someone steal private records and give them to someone to leak. Isn't there a law against accepting stolen property?
Assange should be jumping for joy to know that others feel as he does and are immulating
him.

[Chazmania]

01:20 AM on 12/20/2010

Government politicians committing conspiracy have no rights to privacy when they are committing criminal acts with my tax money PERIOD...

[ForemostPanda]

04:50 AM on 12/20/2010

I would rather they immolated him rather than emulated him.

[celere]

12:54 AM on 12/20/2010

I wonder if he was afraid that reporting for an STD test would somehow get him apprehended?

[ForemostPanda]

04:51 AM on 12/20/2010

he was afraid everyone would know he has std's and it would be harder for him to pick up groupies.

[MarcEdward]

12:36 PM on 12/20/2010

Hardly.
People are really stupid about sex stuff.