Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, wanted by police on rape charges [update - warrant withdrawn]

Expressen (Swedish daily) ^ | 21 August, 2010 | Diamant Salihu and Niklas Svensson

[ScaniaBoy]

(The article and other links, see below, are all in Swedish. So far international media has not reacted. But it will not be long....)

Julian Assange is wanted by Swedish police on probable grounds suspected of rape. Two women 20 and 30 years old contacted the police on Friday.

[Dagnabitt]

Accused of two rapes. Two women victims. One in Stockholm. The other a couple days later outside of Stockholm.

[citizenredstater9271]

Liberals get away w/ everything. They think the morals they talk about don’t apply to them only conservatives.

[woofie]

Bush/ Cheney set him up

[ScaniaBoy]

He is probably no longer in Sweden.

[ScaniaBoy]

Yes, Expresen is a tabloid, but now the broad sheets are also covering the story. Furthermore there are direct quotes from the district prosecutor.

[ItsForTheChildren]

So we’re not the only ones?

[Red Dog #1]

Let me be the first on this thread to predict DU/Daily Kos will have thread after thread detailing CIA plots...

[Gondring]

The excitement for the rapist is the fear the victim displays and the violent assualt itself; not the sex act.

Yes, that is what leftist sources like to claim.

On the other hand, a multitude of scientific research contradicts that view, revealing that only a portion are motivated by anger, power, or sadism. Many prefer non-rape sexual gratification. So I think that correcting your line to "some rapists" would be correct.

Yet in the accusations in the case at hand, it could be simply the alleged perpetrator using his power to get what he wanted sexually.

[pepsionice]

He picked Sweden for several reasons. The Pirate Party is a fairly big deal there and would readily support him. I will make a pretty good guess that both women are connected to the Pirate Party. As for leaving the country...I probably wouldn’t. Once outside of Stockholm....it’s just a rural region with a thousand places to hide. There’s a couple of towns but not much else.

The problem that Assange has now is that he’s burning bridges. The Pirate Party members will start to question his values and will see more police come & go. I’m guessing Assange needs to find a safe environment and will head as far north in Sweden as he can go.

[NoLibZone]

Tabloid Slanders WikiLeaks Julian Assange in Attempt to Distract for Pentagon

http://mathaba.net/news/?x=624411

[CanaGuy]

These America-haters are real pillars of society, aren’t they? Yep, real role models.

[Cindy]

Thanks Gondring.

I’ll respectfully have to disagree with you this time.

[bd476]

Norway's Aftenposten with Google translation:

WikiLeaks-entrepreneur investigated for two rapes

Stockholm police believe there are reasonable grounds for suspicion against Julian Assange. The website says they have not been contacted by police.

Kristine Grue Langset
Updated: 08/21/1910 at. 10:53 Posted: 21/08/1910 at. 8:48

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Maria Häljebo Kjell Beach with prosecutors in Stockholm City confirms the case against Expressen and says Assange is wanted.

Julian Assange has been in Sweden recently. Partly in connection with an agreement that allows the Swedish Pirate Party will be responsible for any of the site's servers, partly in connection with the lectures he has given.

Two Women

- It's rape, and there are reasonable grounds to suspect, "said Kjell Häljebo Strand.

Prosecutors have no other information besides that in the case of rape.

According to Expressen records, two women aged between 20 and 30 have contacted the police.

Assange should have hit one woman on Saturday and Sunday last week in an apartment on Södermalm in Stockholm.

The other woman he will have met in Enköping on Tuesday morning this week.

- Save the power position

A source told the newspaper that Assange met the women in connection with the assignment he had in Sweden.

The women themselves should not have wanted to review, but met with City Policy in Stockholm on Friday to explain the circumstances.

- Women are terrified and dare not announced. Police believe the women in this case is afraid of the perpetrator position of power, "a source of Expressen.

According Häljebo Kjell Beach police do not know where the suspect is right now.

Expressen has failed to connect with Assange, but WikiLeaks writes on Twitter that they have not been contacted by Swedish police.

WikiLeaks-entrepreneur investigated for two rapes

[moehoward]

Yeah. I’m a little disillusioned. This is the best we could do? Couldn’t hang with a stiff in his car or something a little more Hitchcockian?

[steveab]

Why? Did his credit card charges bounce?

[Venturer]

These countries don’t care about rape. They didn’t mind Roman Palanski nailing a 14 year old.

[Cindy]

Thank you bd476 for the additional info.

[MARTIAL MONK]

Boy, you goin' down.

Prison too.

[bd476]

Venturer wrote: "These countries don’t care about rape. They didn’t mind Roman Palanski nailing a 14 year old."

Different locale, different police, different country. Roman Polanski lives in Switzerland, not Sweden.

The Swedish Police have charged Julian Assange with rape in his absence.

See the map below. Switzerland, the country where Roman Polanski is hiding out, is Northeast of Italy and East of France. It is #37 on the map below. Switzerland is not Sweden.

[Hawthorn]

Your map includes three of my favorites, Andorra, Monaco and Lichtenstein. But it omits two equally important countries — San Marino and Vatican City. What gives? Anti-Catholic bias?