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Swedish Prosecutors Drop Sexual Assault Investigations Against Julian Assange

posted by janrinok on Thursday August 13 2015, @09:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-another-5-years dept.

c0lo writes:

ABC (Australia) reports

Swedish prosecutors said they had dropped investigations into allegations of sexual assault made in 2010 against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange because they had run out of time to bring charges.

"Now that the statute of limitations has expired on certain offences, I am obliged to drop part of the investigation," prosecutor Marianne Ny said.

But prosecutors said they would continue with investigations over a further allegation of rape against Assange, also made in 2010.
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They have a further five years to bring any charges over an allegation of rape.

In other news, Sweden and Ecuador have agreed to hold talks aimed at paving the way for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to be questioned over allegations of sexual assault, with 9news reporting that

Assange has challenged Swedish prosecutors to come to his refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London to take his statement on sex attack claims.
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The 44-year-old Australian, who has been living at the embassy for more than three years, said in a statement on Thursday that he was an innocent man and hadn't been charged.

"Come to the embassy to take my statement or promise not to send me to the United States," he said, saying the actions of Swedish prosecutors were "beyond incompetence".

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by patella.whack on Thursday August 13 2015, @09:33PM

    by patella.whack (3848) on Thursday August 13 2015, @09:33PM (#222528)
    While I love a good conspiracy theory as much as anyone here, I recently watched and highly recommend this documentary if you haven't already seen it. It was quite an eye opener for me. Assange certainly seems to have made some tactical mistakes due to personality 'flaws.'

    We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks [wikipedia.org]
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2015, @11:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2015, @11:30PM (#222578)

    I guess that's 1 viewpoint.
    Here's another:
    An Easily Bought Cypher for Right Wing Propaganda [google.com]

    -- gewg_

    • (Score: 1) by patella.whack on Friday August 14 2015, @12:29AM

      by patella.whack (3848) on Friday August 14 2015, @12:29AM (#222604)
      The first couple results to your link relate to The Fifth Estate, but I'm guessing you meant mainly this:

      Nordic News Network: Assange & Sweden [.pdf] [www.nnn.se]

      I didn't have time to read it all yet, but it looks like a great read/companion piece to the movie. Part 6 has a critical review and part 7 has the director's responses and a back&forth with the critic. It seems to be quite a spirited, civil exchange.