http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/8143922/Wikileak\ s-founder-Julian-Assange-hiding-in-Britain-as-Swedes-poised-to-issue-arr\ est-warrant.html <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/8143922/Wikilea\ ks-founder-Julian-Assange-hiding-in-Britain-as-Swedes-poised-to-issue-ar\ rest-warrant.html> Wikileaks founder Julian Assange 'hiding in Britain as Swedes poised to issue arrest warrant' Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is thought to be hiding in Britain after Swedish prosecutors said the country would issue an international warrant for his arrest on multiple charges of rape and sexual assault.
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Amy Willis and Bruno Waterfield 8:57PM GMT 18 Nov 2010 The former Australian hacker faced arrest by Scotland Yard officers after a Swedish judge indicted him for "rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion". Mark Stephens, Mr Assange's lawyer, confirmed his presence in Britain but insisted that his precise movements and location "are a matter which is kept confidential". "I have been in touch with Scotland Yard and Europol today to ask if there were any charges. They said they had nothing outstanding. No public arrest warrant has been issued," but they were aware that the Swedish authorities had issued one, he said. Mr Stephens admitted that Mr Assange "would find it difficult" to travel to Sweden but denied he was 'hiding'. He said: "The difficulty is that when Julian moves from country to country it takes a significant amount of planning. That is not to say that we don't want to meet the prosecutors. "He is not in hiding because he has offered to meet them. He would offer to meet them at the Swedish Embassy or at a neutral venue." Mr Assange, 39, hit the headlines this summer after Wikileaks began to release thousands of secret Pentagon documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, security breaches that have deeply angered the American authorities and allies including Britain. A Swedish court on Thursday announced that an international warrant would be issued. "It has been decided that he be detained," said Alan Camitz, a Stockholm district court judge. Marianne Ny, a Swedish sex crimes prosecutor, said: "I requested his arrest so we could carry out an interrogation with Assange. That is the reason. The next step is to issue an international arrest warrant." Mr Assange has denied the allegations of sexual assault, while admitting he had encounters with the two women concerned in the charges during a visit to Sweden in August. An original demand for a warrant was dropped three months ago. In a recent interview, the open information campaigner said the charges were part of a "smear campaign" aimed at discrediting his website and that the US intelligence services "are probably very happy now". Mr Stephens insisted that Mr Assange had done his best to discuss the charges with prosecutors. "He says he happens to be in the UK at the moment but I'm happy to meet at a place of your choosing or happy to meet at Scotland Yard. We then offer a telephone interview and video conference. The prosecutors declined," he said. <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/8143922/Wikilea\ ks-founder-Julian-Assange-hiding-in-Britain-as-Swedes-poised-to-issue-ar\ rest-warrant.html> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
