In November 2010, Assange was accused by two young Swedish women of rape and sexual assault, which was reached in Stockholm. Swedish prosecutors issued a European arrest warrant. In November last year a proposal to cancel the arrest warrant appellate court rejected an Australian in Stockholm.
In March, the Swedish prosecutor’s office announced that it had requested Assange’s lawyers asking them to allow the questioning him in London in connection with the alleged him sexual offenses. Defence accepted the proposal. The prosecutor Marianne Ny also asked to carry out a DNA test.
Last year, Assange’s lawyers accused the Swedish prosecutor that refuses arrival to the Embassy of Ecuador in London to interrogate Assange. As stated by the prosecutor Ny, such a hearing will contribute little to the case, as in the UK can not compel the suspect to download from its DNA material. The change of position on the hearing in London explained, indicating that Assange case expires in August this year.
From the moment of granting him asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy Australian does not abandon located in central London building. At its needs one of the offices were converted into apartment, where Assange lives, works and welcomes guests.
Assange not guilty and claims that a woman met with him voluntarily. He fears that once extradited to Sweden will be transferred to US authorities in connection with disclosures by WikiLeaks secret documents, including about US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and thousands of US diplomatic cables missions around the world.
Last WikiLeaks has provided the files stolen by hackers from Sony servers. Among the 100 terabytes of data included, among others information about employees and their social security numbers and details of contracts with actors and filmmakers.
Assange explained that the documents should be made public because they show the “internal modus operandi of the influential multinational corporation”. He added that the archive “is in the center of geopolitical conflict” and as such “belongs to the public domain.”
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