The funny "sex without a condom" case is the actual rape charge.
4. Rape
On 17 August 2010, in the home of the injured party [SW] in Enkoping, Assange deliberately consummated sexual intercourse with her by improperly exploiting that she, due to sleep. was in a helpless state.
It is an aggravating circumstance that Assange. who was aware that it was the expressed wish of the injured party and a prerequisite of sexual intercourse that a condom be used. still consummated unprotected sexual intercourse with her. The sexual act was designed to violate the injured party’s sexual integrity.”
Thanks for the link. I really feel like many people here understate the nature of his accused crimes out of misguided hero worship. The guy can do good things for spreading information and at the same time rape women who believed him to be a friend.
For my part, I think it is pretty clear that Assange acted like a total asshole, whether or not he did anything that amounts to a crime. But at the same time, the whole case stinks enough that one does not need to like Assange, to find it peculiar. One does not even need to think he's innocent.
I don't particularly think it is likely the US is involved. I think a more likely scenario is that Marianne Ny - the prosecutor - wanted to use this case for her own goals, and set an example with Assange, and underestimated how his fear of the US would mess the whole thing up.
And from what we've seen so far, the case seems shaky at best: A he-says / she-says where in the case of a trial, the prosecutors may be unable to even produce a signed statement from one of the women; will face a lot of questions regarding the multiple procedural violations; will have to explain the womens attitude to Assange after the alleged offences and so on. The chance of conviction is tiny even without those problems.
Extradition is easier from the UK than Sweden. If he was in Sweden, you'd need the Swedish and UK govs to agree. If he was in UK, it's just the UK gov who needs to agree.
>And from what we've seen so far, the case seems shaky at best: A he-says / she-says where in the case of a trial, the prosecutors may be unable to even produce a signed statement from one of the women; will face a lot of questions regarding the multiple procedural violations; will have to explain the womens attitude to Assange after the alleged offences and so on. The chance of conviction is tiny even without those problems.
You just described every rape case ever that isn't a masked-stranger-in-a-dark-alley attack.
4. Rape On 17 August 2010, in the home of the injured party [SW] in Enkoping, Assange deliberately consummated sexual intercourse with her by improperly exploiting that she, due to sleep. was in a helpless state. It is an aggravating circumstance that Assange. who was aware that it was the expressed wish of the injured party and a prerequisite of sexual intercourse that a condom be used. still consummated unprotected sexual intercourse with her. The sexual act was designed to violate the injured party’s sexual integrity.”
Thanks for the link. I really feel like many people here understate the nature of his accused crimes out of misguided hero worship. The guy can do good things for spreading information and at the same time rape women who believed him to be a friend.