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".
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday August 14 2015, @08:53AM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by zocalo on Friday August 14 2015, @10:36AM
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 3, Informative) by MrNemesis on Friday August 14 2015, @01:51PM
The .uk versus the .gb ISO 3166 debate is an interesting quirk and a side-effect of the fact that the Joint Academic NETwork [wikipedia.org] pre-dates the domain name system and most of the internet. JANET mail addresses [soylentnews.org] were basically backwards as we understand them today - username@uk.ac.someuniversity so when DNS and the internet came along it essentially became a backwards compatibility/interop hack to reverse the direction. Hence the use of .uk instead of .gb (especially since Ukraine didn't really have much say in the discussion at the time). Incidentally as well as being responsible for the .ac.uk domains Janet also manages .gov.uk.
Source: buying one of the salty old CS bods a pint in the student union.
"To paraphrase Nietzsche, I have looked into the abyss and been sick in it."