The Swedish documents trace the accounts given by the two women of their intimate encounters with Assange. As previously reported, both women say that Assange first agreed to use a condom and then refused, in the first instance by continuing with sex after the condom broke and in the second by having sex with a woman who was asleep without using a condom.
Can anyone say "lol Irony".On Friday, he told the BBC that the case presented in the London courts was "a smear attempt" and that the impending publication of the Swedish police documents amounted to "another smear attempt".
Orly? Weren't you the one who said "absolute transparency"?"It's the case of any organization that's exposing major powers, and has major opposition, that they will be attacked. Every aspect of their lives will be scrutinized, and this organization is no exception"
And from that point on it just starts getting infuriatingly worse.
Yep, that evil Swedish politican is in the incriminating position of gender equality.Legal experts in Sweden have said that the decision was not unusual given the success that the women's movement in Sweden has had over the past 30 years in recasting Sweden's criminal laws on sexual issues, making them extremely protective of women's rights, and the intense public interest that has been stirred in Sweden by the Assange case.
But Mark Stephens, Assange's lead lawyer in London, has repeatedly said, without providing details, that "a senior political figure" worked to have the case reopened.
The reference appears to have been to Claes Borgstrom, the lawyer for the two Swedish women, who is Sweden's former equal opportunities ombudsman and the spokesman on gender equality issues for the Social Democratic Party, the main opposition group in the Swedish parliament. In an interview in Stockholm, Borgstrom, 66, said it was common under Sweden's rape laws for men who force sex on women without a condom to face prosecution.
Borgstrom said Assange's statement that he has "heard no evidence whatsoever" to support the allegations was false, since the contents of the police report were made available to his Swedish lawyers weeks ago. By presenting the case as a vendetta, he said, Assange and his legal team were misrepresenting a justice system that required approval from Sweden's highest appeal court before the extradition warrant was approved.
"Those who say that the judges in our court of appeal were influenced by pressure from the United States don't know what they're talking about," he said. "It's absurd".
He said by presenting the allegations against him as part of a political conspiracy, Assange had made "victims" of the two women, who now faced vilification on the Internet and regular death threats.
