Wikileaks:Julian Assange v Sweden’s broad sexual laws
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is fighting against extradition from Britain to Sweden where he faces allegations of rape and coercing women into having sex – accusations which his defenders say are part of a conspiracy to silence him. Stephen Evans reports from Stockholm on how Swedish law may prove difficult for the Wikileaks founder.
Everybody you talk to in Sweden involved in the Julian Assange affair asserts – often with some irritation – that: “There Is No Conspiracy.”
The Swedish authorities are not acting at the behest of the CIA or the American embassy in Stockholm when they make life difficult for the founder of Wikileaks.
Tough laws
The lawyer for the two women who have accused Mr Assange of coercing them sexually told the BBC it was not part of some wider, global plot.
“Absolutely not,” said Claes Borgstrom. “I represent two women who have experienced something that many thousands of women both in Sweden and in other countries have experienced.”
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