Thursday, August 13, 2015

Two of the four goals against Julian Assange put down today in Sweden – Swedish YLE

Prosecutor in Sweden puts down two of the four goals against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Two of the crimes that Assange is suspected of barred today.

In a case of unlawful coercion and sexual assault allegedly committed the summer of 2010.

The woman whose case is now time-barred have mixed feelings for the day, said her lawyer to Radio Sweden .

– Of course she had wanted to see Assange to justice. But it’s been five years and she has a normal life with all that implies, and she wants to put this behind them now. In this way it is a relief today, said lawyer Claes Borgström.



The process began in summer 2010

Julian Assange was arrested in August 2010 during a visit to Sweden on suspicion of rape and sexual molestation.

Two women contacted the police because they were worried that they had been infected with HIV after they had had sexual intercourse with Assange.

He was questioned by Swedish police and the allegations of rape were dismissed, but only a week later resumed the investigation of a new prosecutor in November asked that Assange be arrested.

By then, Assange traveled to Britain where he was arrested by British police in December.



fled to Ecuador’s embassy in London

In the summer of 2012, searched Assange asylum in Ecuador’s embassy in London when the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom had decided that he should be extradited to Sweden.

Assange has always denied his guilt and he has accused the Swedish authorities for political motives because he was afraid that the US wanted have him extradited from Sweden.

His legal representative in Sweden has demanded that the investigation is closed.

We have always said that this investigation should be closed down long ago on account investigative mode. And it is regrettable that it would have to go so long that we needed to wait for the limitation of some of the works, said lawyer Thomas Olsson Eco editorial staff.

The prosecutor’s office announced later on Thursday how to proceed with the Assange case .

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