Sweden is re-writing the law to prosecute Assange

Dec 03, 2010 18:56


Both women admit to consenting to sex with Assange, and they both boasted about the fact - one even holding a party. There was no violence. This is corroborated by the prosecutors handling the case. And the law, itself, is being re-written with the sole intent of convicting, and in effect neutralizing Assange:

"Proposed reforms of Swedish rape laws would introduce a test of whether the unequal power relations between the parties might void the sincerely expressed consent of one party. In this case, presumably, the politically active Ardin, with experience fielding gender equity complaints as a gender equity officer at Uppsala University, had her will suborned by Assange’s celebrity. The prosecutor coming as she does from a prosecution “Development Unit” could achieve this broadening of the law during Assange’s trial so he can be convicted of a crime that didn’t exist at the time he allegedly committed it. She would need to. There is no precedent for it. The Swedes are making it up as they go along."

www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/02/when-it-comes-to-assange-r-pe-case-the-swedes-are-making-it-up-as-they-go-along/
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