Guardian: Previously Unseen Police Docs - Full Allegations Against Julian Assange

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http://m.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-sweden?cat=media&type=article

10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against Julian Assange

Unseen police documents provide the first complete account of the allegations against the WikiLeaks founder

Julian Assange at Ellingham Hall. Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters
Nick Davies
The Guardian, Fri 17 Dec 2010 21.30 GMT

Documents seen by the Guardian reveal for the first time the full details of the allegations of rape and sexual assault that have led to extradition hearings against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. The case against Assange, which has been the subject of intense speculation and dispute in mainstream media and on the internet, is laid out in police material held in Stockholm to which the Guardian received unauthorised access.

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Assange's UK lawyer, Mark Stephens, attributed the allegations to "dark forces", saying: "The honeytrap has been sprung ... After what we've seen so far you can reasonably conclude this is part of a greater plan." The journalist John Pilger dismissed the case as a "political stunt" and in an interview with ABC news, Assange said Swedish prosecutors were withholding evidence which suggested he had been "set up."

However, unredacted statements held by prosecutors in Stockholm, along with interviews with some of the central characters, shed fresh light on the hotly disputed sequence of events that has become the centre of a global storm.

Stephens has repeatedly complained that Assange has not been allowed to see the full allegations against him, but it is understood his Swedish defence team have copies of all the documents seen by the Guardian.
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. According to her statement she "tried to put on some articles of clothing as it was going too quickly and uncomfortably but Assange ripped them off again". Miss A told police that she didn't want to go any further "but that it was too late to stop Assange as she had gone along with it so far", and so she allowed him to undress her.

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[EFerrari]

1. Thanks, Hissyspit.

[PBS Poll-435]

2. I'd clutch pearls

But he broke them. :(

[pacalo]

3. Miss "A" held a party in his honor after he "raped" her & didn't report the "rape" until after

Miss "A" found out about Miss "W" six days after the fact, & vice versa: two scorned women.

[northernlights]

13. +1,0000, except 2 scorned spoiled brats, not women. nt

[pacalo]

14. And the fact that global governments are pursuing this shaky non-crime gives us the big picture.

[EFerrari]

18. Exactly. n/t

[librechik]

4. Both declined to say no, file charges or even kick him out of the apt. But they did ask

that he be checked for STDs. That is all they have against this dreaded "multiple sex criminal," Assange. i.e., zero.

[EFerrari]

8. They also both approached him. n/t

[backscatter712]

12. The word for this is "honeytrap". n/t

[iamtechus]

5. I must have led a very sheltered life

I'm 68 years old and have had a healthy satisfying sex life but have never heard-of nor been in involved-in any adventures like those described in the article. That includes all the movies and TV series I've seen. I have to say that this must be complete and utter bullshit!

I just can't believe that, after being forced to have sex, someone would keep hanging around or leaving and then coming back. I doubt that the cops or the DA in my county would spend any time on a report like this.

[pacalo]

15. I've led a sheltered life, too, but one woman can read another pretty well.

This story has "scorned woman" written all over it.

Btw, I love your signature picture! Mind if I copy it & use it?

[MrCoffee]

6. IF they only went to police to force Assange to take an HIV test, then this is ridiculous

Harold has independently told the Guardian that Miss A made a series of calls to him asking him to persuade Assange to take an STD test to reassure Miss W, and that Assange refused. Miss A then warned that if Assange did not take a test, Miss W would go to the police. Assange had rejected this as blackmail, Harold told police.

Assange told police that Miss A spoke to him directly and complained to him that he had torn their condom, something that he regarded as false.

Late that Friday afternoon, Harold told police, Assange agreed to take a test, but the clinics had closed for the weekend. Miss A phoned Harold to say that she and Miss W had been to the police, who had told them that they couldn't simply tell Assange to take a test, that their statements must be passed to the prosecutor. That night, the story leaked to the Swedish newspaper Expressen.

The two women involved weren't calling it rape.

[EFerrari]

7. Precisely. But that didn't matter to the Noise Machine

and now Assange is walking around with an electronic monitor strapped to him.

This is bullshit on a cracker.

[MrCoffee]

9. This is beginning to have a certain Duke Lacrosse feeling to it

Some hard questions need to be asked of the Swedish prosecutor.

[EFerrari]

10. And the Brits, who honored an INTERPOL red notice

for a witness, not a perp, and then saw fit to try to deny him bail.

:puke:

[avaistheone1]

16. Precisely.

Talk about a ginned up story!

[backscatter712]

11. This is a "He said, she said" case. Not enough evidence to convict.

Where's the hard evidence?

[Hissyspit]

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