Sweden withholding documentation on Assange probe: lawyer
One of the two Swedish women who have filed sex complaints against the founder of WikiLeaks has reportedly left Sweden and may no longer be cooperating with the criminal investigation.
According to a report at Australian news site Crikey.com, Anna Ardin has moved to the Palestinian territories to volunteer with a Christian group working to reconcile Arabs and Israelis.
One source from Ardin’s old university of Uppsala reported rumors that she had stopped co-operating with the prosecution service several weeks ago, and that this was part of the reason for the long delay in proceeding with charges — and what still appears to be an absence of charges.
Ardin's blog shows that she has recently posted from the Palestinian territories. Her most recent blog posts make no mention of WikiLeaks or its founder, Julian Assange.
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This is so strange! What are we to make of it?
ReplyDeleteVery strange. The US authorities have only to request that the British hand over Mr. Assange and they have to comply. We have the most outrageous extradition arrangements with Globocop. They can label anyone in the UK a terrorist and extradition is compulsory, no prima facie evidence, no chance to appeal. This only works one way. Any extradition requests by the UK authorities can be ignored.
ReplyDeleteMy opinion, the British police are just holding on to Mr. A. while awaiting orders from above.
I don't like Assange. It may be that I used to live in San Francisco and he there are millions of that kind of suave arrogant know-it-alls running around. Or maybe it's just his hair...He released all these documents in such a way that none of them will have any impact, except to embarrass some politicians and diplomats. The main issues that will come out of this is national security and internet security(the latter, especially since his group attacked Visa, MasterCard, Amazon, and Paypal.). That can only mean more government intrusion and restrictions, the opposite of what was intended. Also, there has been talk about establishing closed internet networks controlled by big corporations to replace the free for all we have now. In a worst case scenario, his whole incident may help bring that about, For the average person, not having their lives disrupted by a cyberwar is more important than hearing gossip about diplomats. Besides, what doesn't America and the world know already-after Abu Gharib, Katrina, the trillion dollar bailout and everything else that has been in the news the past several years?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/10/julian-assange-lawyers-us-charges
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