Tuesday, January 11, 2011

WikiLeaks-founder: British justice starts extradition proceedings against Assange

For ian Assange it is narrow: By early February a court in London decides on his extradition to Sweden, where it threatens a method for rape. The WikiLeaks founder condemns the "brutal rhetoric" against his person - and draws parallels with the assassination of Arizona. London - Just before Christmas was ian Assange, founder of the unveiling WikiLeaks platform, has been released on bail.

On Tuesday entered Assange, which is in Sweden on suspicion of having sexually abused two women, once again a courtroom. The date it was first in London to procedural issues. The actual decision about a possible deportation to Sweden to London, according to the judges fall in February. The next time put the court on the 7th February resistant.

Assange facing deportation in the Scandinavian country. The Swedish Justice accuses him of rape and sexual abuse before and will make him the process. The 39-year-old Australian denies the allegations. Assange said to have used in August during a stay in Sweden and had sex with two women against their will no condom.

The sex itself was by mutual agreement. Sweden had adopted an EU-wide arrest warrant, was arrested on the basis Assange in December in the UK. He was nine days in detention before his release on bail. Charges from the U.S.? In a statement released before the court date Assange condemned the brutal rhetoric of many U.S.

politicians against him. Assange, who claims to have received death threats, moved in parallel to the attack on the U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords in the U.S. state of Arizona. "No organization anywhere in the world of free speech is more committed than WikiLeaks," he said. "But if senior politicians and call for attention-seeking media Kommentatn to kill certain groups or people, they should be prosecuted for incitement to murder," he said in allusion to the debate about aggressive campaign rhetoric of political parties in the United States.

The statement continues: Those who viewed the murder Wear, "an equally large share of the blame as those who take up a weapon to pull the trigger." Since his arrest and detention of several days in December ian Assange lives under house arrest for a patron in the UK. The WikiLeaks founder fears that he could be transferred to an extradition to Sweden to the United States.

Parallel to the criminal proceedings in Sweden is prepared according to media reports in the U.S. as an indictment of Assange. WikiLeaks had published in recent months, tens of thousands of documents related to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the contents of confidential diplomatic dispatches.

This had brought the U.S. in particular in Erklärungsnot. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden had called Assange as "high-tech terrorists"

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