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Swedish authorities issue arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Assange after rape accusation

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Sweden withdraws arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder

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Sweden withdraws arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder

He didn't rape just molested (e.g. Swedish just revoke the rape charge but didn't address the molestation charge)

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Rape Probe Against WikiLeaks Founder Reopened

Apparently there is both a rape and a molestation charge from two different people.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested in UK

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'Russia: Julian Assange deserves a Nobel Prize'
Really?

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If WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is indicted by the U.S. government for disseminating classified information, as even his own lawyer now expects, his defense is likely to face long legal odds.

The 1917 Espionage Act, enacted by the U.S. Congress during World War I, has been a mainstay of national security prosecutions ever since. And it's been upheld as constitutional by every court that has examined whether its invocation in a criminal prosecution complies with the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech.

A CNET review of Espionage Act cases shows that judges have generally favored the government and, in a 1985 case, even allowed an extraterritorial prosecution of a non-U.S. citizen. In the 1978 case of U.S. v. Dedeyan, the Fourth Circuit upheld the Act against arguments that it was vague and overly broad. A year later, in U.S. v. Boyce, the Ninth Circuit ruled it was "constitutionally sufficient."

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20...#ixzz182gZe1Se

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he'll get time magazine person of the year

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he'll get time magazine person of the year

So much has been made out of this - but do we really know anything new? Not if you follow geopolitics. It confirmed some things, but there has been nothing earth shattering, or anything as a game-changer.

Whether the U.S. will attempt to go after Assange for espionage will really depend on whether he was encouraging or anyway aiding Manning. But the ironic thing is if he is charged eventually his defense will argue the information stolen was really trivial.

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Assange Calls On the World to Protect His Work

"I am calling on the world to protect my work and my people from these illegal and immoral attacks," he was quoted as saying to Australia's Seven network.

Assange also denounced companies like Visa and Mastercard for stopping payment to WikiLeaks.

"We now know that Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and others are instruments of U.S. foreign policy," he said in a written statement to Australia's Seven network.

At an hour-long court hearing last week, lawyer Gemma Lindfield -- acting for Swedish police -- said Assange is accused of rape, molestation and unlawful coercion.

She told the court one woman had accused Assange of pinning her down and refusing to use a condom during an encounter on Aug. 14 in Stockholm. That woman also accused of Assange of molesting her in a way "designed to violate her sexual integrity" several days later.

A second woman has accused Assange of having sex with her without a condom while he was a guest at her Stockholm home and she was asleep.

In Sweden, a person who has sex with an unconscious, drunk or sleeping person can be convicted of rape and sentenced to up to six years in prison.

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NBC: U.S. can't link accused Army private to Assange

U.S. military officials tell NBC News that investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between a jailed army private suspected with leaking secret documents and Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.

The officials say that while investigators have determined that Manning had allegedly unlawfully downloaded tens of thousands of documents onto his own computer and passed them to an unauthorized person, there is apparently no evidence he passed the files directly to Assange, or had any direct contact with the controversial WikiLeaks figure.