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Swedish court approves arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder
by Joseph Ernest November 18, 2010
Newscast
Media -- Swedish director of prosecutions
Marriane Ny, got a victory today when a Swedish court approved a request for the arrest of Julian
Assange, the Australian founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks,
over allegations of rape and sexual molestation.
The decision by Stockholm
district court's decision on Thursday could allow authorities to issue
an international warrant Assange's arrest. The decision comes a few weeks after
Assange released classified military
documents about the war in Iraq detailing torture, civilian deaths
blamed on US and Iraqi forces.
"I request the District Court of Stockholm to detain Mr Assange in his absence, suspected of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion," Marianne Ny said in a statement in English.
"The reason for my request is that we need to interrogate him. So
far, we have not been able to meet with him to accomplish the
interrogations."
The 39-year old Australian says the allegations
against him are fabrications and said that he
had earlier been warned by Australian intelligence that he could face a
campaign to discredit him. Bjoern Hurtig, his lawyer in Sweden, said the prosecutor's petition was "exaggerated" and "out of proportion."
In October, WikiLeaks
released approximately 400,000 classified US files on the
Iraq war, which Assange has said showed 15,000 more Iraqi civilian
deaths than thought. Add
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