"At a hearing on Thursday 16 December, The High Court in London decided that Julian Assange should be granted bail. From the Swedish prosecutor’s perspective, the decision does not change the state of the case itself.
- As I have already stated I cannot, at the moment, provide
information concerning the development of the matter. The question concerning
surrender is handled by British authorities, says Director of Prosecution
Ms. Marianne Ny.
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She said the first complainant, Miss A, said she was victim of "unlawful coercion" on the night of 14 August in Stockholm.
The court heard Assange is accused of using his body weight to hold her down in a sexual manner.
The second charge alleged Assange "sexually molested" Miss A by having sex with her without a condom when it was her "express wish" one should be used.
The third charge claimed Assange "deliberately molested" Miss A on 18 August "in a way designed to violate her sexual integrity".
The fourth charge accused Assange of having sex with a second woman, Miss W, on 17 August without a condom while she was asleep at her Stockholm home."
It seems like either ms Lindfeld, the Swedish Chief Prosecutor,
or the Guardian got it wrong on the fourth charge as it must have taken
place in Sofia Wilen's Enkoping home.
- There is reason to believe that a crime has been committed. Based on the information available, the crimes in question come under the heading of sexual coercion and sexual molestation, respectively.Director of Public Prosecution Marianne Ny will be leading the further investigations. She will be assisted by Deputy Chief Prosecutor Ms Erika Lejnefors.
- Due to the investigation and the persons involved
in the matter, I cannot give more information concerning details in the
investigation.
The documents were made available to the public by Wikileaks.org. The documents that were leaked from the gigantic US intelligence apparatus are classified as secret, obviously they were not intended to be distributed all over the globe and dissected by three national newspapers from Germany (Der Spiegel), the UK (The Guardian) and the US (The New York Times).
The reports in the thousands of documents are authentic, but do not always reveal the truth, merely raw field reports. The reports confirm the already known cooperation between the Pakistan secret service and the Talibans that result in the killings of US troops, the fact that the US is hiding the real number of civilian deaths and injuries is also a normal war strategy and no news.
The publication of these reports as the
top news all over the world put the US in the same situation as BP, a dirty
mess is surfacing and now every step in the PR and image work will be very
important for Obama. Let us hope that he does not make the same mistakes
as BP’s Svanberg did. Let us hope for transparency instead of falsification.