<div>After reading the referred article, my first comment is that Sweden has one of the strongest sex crime laws in the world and the alleged crime was committed on Swedish soil so it is quite irrelevant if the crime is illegal or not in UK. </div>
<div><br></div><div><div><div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">He is accused of breaking the condom prior to or while having sex, this makes it sexual assault / rape according to Swedish law and the police had a initial hearing with Assange that leaked to the press:</div>
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<br></div><div>In most other countries stronger circumstances such as clear signs of a rape etc. is needed before this is seen as a crime and it is still hard to prove this in a court of law in Sweden without physical evidence such as DNA etc, in particular when the suspect has a good lawyer. His lawyers have recently failed to appealed the arrest order and the prosecutor is about to send out a new arrest order since the previous one was not properly certified:</div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.thelocal.se/30574/20101202/">http://www.thelocal.se/30574/20101202/</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>I tend to think the prosecutor is very bad at communicating with the press that this case requires and working with new technology to do a video hearing, collect DNA evidence etc. via a 3rd party etc. and there may be legal issues with this approach. Mr Assange is very good at communicating with the press and he is cautious in his contacts with government organisations considering he is not really popular with them after publishing a historically huge amount of leaked material.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The situation is complex and my initial thought to write a open letter to the prosecutor questioning there methods and lack of alternative ways of handling this case may actually make it look like the PP movement believe in his innocent and that's not the message we want to announce.</div>
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On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Kenneth Peiruza <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenneth@contralaguerra.org" target="_blank">kenneth@contralaguerra.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<a href="http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/12/02/no-wikileakss-julian-assange-isnt-accused-of-rape/" target="_blank">http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/12/02/no-wikileakss-julian-assange-isnt-accused-of-rape/</a><br>
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Hilarious, can some Swedish confirm this?<br>
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Al 03/12/10 00:57, En/na Jay Emerson ha escrit:
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