Wiki leak

[gagged_Louise]

By the way, the charges of sexual assault, intrusion or rape that were filed against Assange after he visited Sweden some weeks back, and which are now going around the block, look really flimsy. There was a lot of changing and back-and-forth from the women filing and the prosecutors in the first days, and the laws and legal praxis around here are not 100% clear on what it takes for an act to be recognized as rape or sexual assault. The statutes were retouched a few years ago but both before and after that, some cases that would count as rock solid rape in many countries have ended in acquittal, while in other cases where the sense of being forced or non-consent was so much less clear, have led to verdicts of rape, incestual rape or child abuse. For some years, there was a wave of incest accusations and verdicts without much in the way of solid evidence at all. Stories were reconstructed and cooked from the kid's drawings and oblique remarks at kindergarten or school. It's recently been compared to witchcraft trials, and for a reason.

The whole issue is heavily ideologized and polarized, even among legal professionals and scholars here, and of course, that makes it an excellent tool if one would want to commit a "justice murder" against a controversial man.