Wednesday 1 February 2012

ASSANGE & SWEDEN

CASE HISTORY

On a Friday afternoon in August of 2010, two Swedish women visited a police station in Stockholm, ostensibly to seek advice on how to compel a mutual sexual partner to take a test for HIV infection.

When they emerged a few hours later, the police had transformed their health-related errand into serious accusations of rape and other sexual misconduct. 

The inevitable and almost immediate result was a global news sensation; for, the object of those accusations was Julian Assange, editor of WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website that had become a major news force through its disclosures of unethical and criminal conduct by numerous governments, most particularly that of the United States ...

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