Assange rape case to be reopened by Swedish prosecutors

Making a "White Power" fist, Assange faces
extradition to the US

Swedish prosecutors will be reopening a rape case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, at the request of the alleged victim's lawyer.

The case's reopening comes a month after he was basically thrown out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. His leaving wasn't pretty, though, as it was reported that he smeared feces on the walls and was kicking and screaming as he was manhandled out of the embassy.

Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions Eva-Marie Persson announcement the plan at a news conference in Stockholm. She said that “there is still a probable cause to suspect that Assange committed a rape.”

Swedish prosecutors filed preliminary charges against Assange, a probable agent of Russia, after he visited the country in 2010. Assange denied the charges and has avoided extradition by seeking refuge in London's Ecuadorian embassy.

Seven years later, a case of alleged sexual misconduct was dropped when the statute of limitations expired. That left a rape allegation, which couldn't be pursued while Assange was living at the embassy. The statute of limitations on that case expires in August 2020.

Mr. Bradley/Chelsea Manning

Assange was evicted from the embassy last month and sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for violating his bail.

The United States has also begun extradition proceedings for Assange's alleged role in leaking diplomatic and military secrets in 2010. The evidence for his involvement with Chelsea [aka Bradley] Manning is overwhelming and if he is extradited back to the US and stands trial, it is highly probable that he will be convicted and spend some serious time in prison, where he belongs.

Assange is not a journalist by any stretch of the definition. He allegedly stole classified information by allegedly hacking into a US government computer system, and put it all out on the internet without perusing it. Moreover, he did not reveal the data for any journalistic intention other than to create a public shock.



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