Julian Assange 'would face bias in Sweden', retired judge says

[alp227]

Source: The Guardian

The prosecutor leading the rape and sexual assault case against Julian Assange is a "malicious" radical feminist who is "biased against men", a retired senior Swedish judge has told the hearing into Assange's extradition to Sweden.

In caustic evidence on the first day of the two-day hearing, Brita Sundberg-Weitman, a former appeal court judge, told Belmarsh magistrates court that Sweden's chief prosecutor, Marianne Ny, who is seeking the WikiLeaks founder's extradition, "has a rather biased view against men". "I can't understand her attitude here. It looks malicious," she said.

Geoffrey Robertson QC, acting for Assange, asked if it was her view that Ny wanted "to get into her clutches and then arrest him no matter what?"

"Yes" said Sundberg-Weitman. "It might be her attitude to have the man arrested and maybe let him suffer for a few weeks to have him softer ."

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/07/julian-assange-prosecutor

[Vattel]

1. LOL

Assange needs better witnesses. And the Guardian needs better writers.

[bertman]

2. "Assange needs better witnesses." HUH??!! Former senior appeals court judge. Female.

[EFerrari]

3. I heard something new today on the AJ English broadcast.

One of the witnesses is testifying that he saw one of Assange's accusers volunteer to be his personal press secretary 48 hours after the alleged assault.

That's pretty freaky.

Edit: to correct the time from 72 to 48.

[stockholmer]

4. Marianne Ny is very problematic as a prosecutor, she has exhibited clear bias in the past

http://www.daddys-sverige.com/3/post/2010/11/gstinlgg-marianne-nys-konstiga-syn-p-rttsskerhet.html

Marianne Ny wrote this in a Court Administration report on the new women's law in 2001 that she helped formulate and testified as an expert:

"Only when the man is detained can the woman find the time for peace and quiet to get some perspective on her life, thus she gets a chance to discover how she really was treated. " "Marianne Ny argues that the prosecution has a good effect to protect the woman, even in cases where the offender is not prosecuted nor convicted."
http://www.domstol.se/Publikationer/Rapporter/Kvinnofridslagen.pdf


http://www.skandinaviflorida.com/web/sif.nsf/d6plinks/JEIE-8CSTKZ

Prejudice is a problem though. Our gender decides how we judge men and women's guilt and criminality. Last Friday, Angela S. Ahola, Doctor of Psychology at Stockholm University presented her dissertation on how women and men are treated by the legal system, how women's and men's stories are evaluated and that even the appearance affects on who is trusted. Ahola's dissertation confirms what we at RO have suspected for a long time - that women are being judged more kindly by the police and prosecutor. Women get a milder punishment for the same crime as men, and female witnesses are considered more reliable than male. We must get rid of these prejudices in order to claim that the Swedish justice guarantee equality before the law.

RO wants to see reviews of the rape cases that are based on facts not claims. The speculations most stop. The more innocent that are being mistreated the less we trust the legal system. We are convinced that there are many out there who have been abused by the legal system.

Rättssäkerhetsorganisationen RO, The Rights Organization

Johann Binninge
Monica Pernroth
Jenny Beltran
Susanne Flyborg

http://www.dagensjuridik.se/2010/05/dags-att-kartlagga-nedlagda-valdtaktsfall

new dissertation from Stockholms Universitet on gender sentencing difference here in Sweden

http://www.su.se/english/about/press/press-releases/defendant-s-gender-affects-length-of-sentence-1.2387
http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=1&pid=diva2:311692



'Try Me for Rape Too, Marianne Ny!'
by SVT head news anchor Olle Andersson

http://www.newsmill.se/artikel/2011/01/08/jag-b-r-ocks-talas-f-r-v-ldt-kt

english version
http://rixstep.com/2/1/20110109,01.shtml


Is rape rampant in gender-equal Sweden? Re Assange and Wikileaks
http://www.lauraagustin.com/is-rape-rampant-in-gender-equal-sweden

[elias49]

5. K&R

Thanks for these links.

[bertman]

6. "Angela S. Ahola"??!! Say that three times fast and tell me it's a real name.