ショッキング映像。アサンジ、髪もヒゲも真っ白で、全身担がれて警察車に押し込まれてる。 https://t.co/IrpYITbUqw via @YouTube
— suzuky (@suzuky) 2019年4月11日
Is Julian Assange innocent?
10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against Julian Assange
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Unseen police documents provide the first complete account of the allegations against the WikiLeaks founder
The allegations centre on a 10-day period after Assange flew into Stockholm on Wednesday 11 August. One of the women, named in court as Miss A, told police that she had arranged Assange's trip to Sweden, and let him stay in her flat because she was due to be away. She returned early, on Friday 13 August, after which the pair went for a meal and then returned to her flat.
Her account to police, which Assange disputes, stated that he began stroking her leg as they drank tea, before he pulled off her clothes and snapped a necklace that she was wearing
The police record of the interview with Assange in Stockhom deals only with the complaint made by Miss A. However, Assange and his lawyers have repeatedly stressed that he denies any kind of wrongdoing in relation to Miss W.
In submissions to the Swedish courts, they have argued that Miss W took the initiative in contacting Assange, that on her own account she willingly engaged in sexual activity in a cinema and voluntarily took him to her flat where, she agrees, they had consensual sex. They say that she never indicated to Assange that she did not want to have sex with him. They also say that in a text message to a friend, she never suggested she had been raped and claimed only to have been "half asleep".
Confidential Swedish Police Report Details Allegations Against WikiLeaks Founder
By JOHN F. BURNS and RAVI SOMAIYADEC. 18, 2010
The Swedish report traces events over a four-day period in August when Mr. Assange, a 39-year-old Australian, had what he has described as consensual sexual relationships with two Swedish women. Their accounts, which form the basis of an extradition case against Mr. Assange, state that their encounters with him began consensually, but became nonconsensual when he persisted in having unprotected sex with them in defiance of their insistence that he use a condom.
The case has prompted widespread controversy, with supporters of Mr. Assange alleging that he is the victim, and the women are complicit, in an American-inspired vendetta seeking to punish WikiLeaks for posting hundreds of thousands of secret American documents on the Internet.
Still, the police report also provides support for a claim made by Mr. Assange’s supporters that the women involved seemed willing to continue their friendships with Mr. Assange after what they described as sexual misbehavior. The women did not decide to go to the police, the report shows, until they discovered by talking to each other that they had both been sexually involved with him and, by their accounts, had similar experiences.
The two women have been referred to in the British courts only as Ms. A and Ms. W. Ms. A, according to the police report and to Swedish friends, is a left-wing activist in her early 30s who was Mr. Assange’s point of contact when he flew to Stockholm from London on Aug. 11 to give a speech at a gathering hosted by the Swedish Association of Christian Social Democrats on Aug. 14. Her friends say her political leanings suggest she would not want to harm WikiLeaks, which is dedicated to revealing states’ secrets.
Ms. W, who has worked part-time in a Stockholm museum, has told friends that she is a strong supporter of WikiLeaks, a description supported by the lawyer who was represented the two women in Swedish courts.
強姦の嫌疑については、合意があったのなかったの、と微妙なところ。
Important background for journalists covering the arrest of Julian #Assange by Ecuador: the United Nations formally ruled his detention to be arbitrary, a violation of human rights. They have repeatedly issued statements calling for him to walk free--including very recently. pic.twitter.com/fr12rYdWUF
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) 2019年4月11日
Julian Assange arbitrarily detained by Sweden and the UK, UN expert panel finds
GENEVA (5 February 2016)
エクアドル大使館での実質的拘束については、恣意的で人権侵害だ、国連の専門家チーム
Why do people hate Julian Assange?
Assange has never to my knowledge stolen and distributed the “secrets” of a right-wing or authoritarian government
櫻田 淳
5時間前
この御仁は、たとえば中国やロシアの政府内部情報の暴露を手掛けたのであろうか。寡聞にして、そういう話を聞かないのだが…。
いずれにせよ、アサンジは嫌われ者らしいが、
“It would be entirely appropriate for Swedish prosecutors to reopen their investigation... None of this alters the dangers of agreeing to his extradition to the US.”https://t.co/d8g2bYb5NM
— Archie Bland (@archiebland) 2019年4月11日
Every time a repressive government wants to erode a core liberty, they target in the first instance someone who is unpopular, hoping (and anticipating) that elites will be incapable of setting aside their personal dislike for the target in order to defend the right under assault: https://t.co/EutIBBcNsn
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) 2019年4月11日
The @ACLU's point is vital: if the US can force the arrest and then extradite foreigners like Assange on foreign soil for publishing docs, what prevents China or Iran or, you know, Russia for doing the same to US journalists who publish secrets about them? https://t.co/31WfYg7zrC
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) 2019年4月11日
Images of Ecuador's ambassador inviting the UK's secret police into the embassy to drag a publisher of--like it or not--award-winning journalism out of the building are going to end up in the history books. Assange's critics may cheer, but this is a dark moment for press freedom. https://t.co/ys1AIdh2FP
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) 2019年4月11日
アメリカに送還されて罪に問われることについては、報道の自由に対する弾圧の危険を指摘する声も。
