Interpol Issues ‘Red Notice’ for Arrest of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange | Threat Level | Wired.com
Un mandat d'Interpol contre le créateur de Wikileaks d'origine doûteuse (le mandat, pas le créateur de Wikileaks ;-) :
"....The investigation stems from separate encounters Assange had with two women during his August visit to Sweden, 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 women told investigators the sexual encounters began as consensual, but turned non-consensual. One woman said Assange ignored her appeals to stop when the condom broke.
Assange has denied any wrongdoing, and hinted that the complaints are the result of a U.S. “smear campaign” targeting WikiLeaks — leading some supporters of the group to publicly investigate the two women and their families...
...In a statement earlier this month, Assange’s British counsel said that his client repeatedly offered to cooperate with local investigators while he was in Sweden, and has offered to answer questions remotely from Britain since then.
“All of these offers have been flatly refused by a prosecutor who is abusing her powers by insisting that he return to Sweden at his own expense to be subjected to another media circus that she will orchestrate,” wrote attorney Mark Stephens.
“Pursuing a warrant in this circumstance is entirely unnecessary and disproportionate.”..."
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Interpol Issues ‘Red Notice’ for Arrest of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange | Threat Level | Wired.com
"....The investigation stems from separate encounters Assange had with two women during his August visit to Sweden, 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 women told investigators the sexual encounters began as consensual, but turned non-consensual. One woman said Assange ignored her appeals to stop when the condom broke.
Assange has denied any wrongdoing, and hinted that the complaints are the result of a U.S. “smear campaign” targeting WikiLeaks — leading some supporters of the group to publicly investigate the two women and their families...
...In a statement earlier this month, Assange’s British counsel said that his client repeatedly offered to cooperate with local investigators while he was in Sweden, and has offered to answer questions remotely from Britain since then.
“All of these offers have been flatly refused by a prosecutor who is abusing her powers by insisting that he return to Sweden at his own expense to be subjected to another media circus that she will orchestrate,” wrote attorney Mark Stephens.
“Pursuing a warrant in this circumstance is entirely unnecessary and disproportionate.”..."
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Interpol Issues ‘Red Notice’ for Arrest of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange | Threat Level | Wired.com
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