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Submission + - Julian Assange To Be Interviewed in London After All (aklagare.se)

Submitted by mpawlo on Monday June 15, 2015 @02:24PM

mpawlo writes: The Swedish Director of Public Prosecution Ms Marianne Ny has submitted a request for legal assistance to the English authorities and a request to Ecuadorian authorities regarding permission to interview Julian Assange at Ecuador’s embassy in London during June-July 2015. Back in 2010, a warrant was issued in Stockholm, Sweden for WikiLeaks founder and spokesman Julian Assange. Ever since, Assange has found refugee at the embassy of Ecuador in London.

Submission + - Julian Assange Runs For Office in Australia (theage.com.au)

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mpawlo

on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @08:25PM

mpawlo writes: "Mr Julian Assange of Wikileaks fame, has, according to The Age, confirmed his intention to run for the Australian Senate in 2013. He will also form a Wikileaks political party. I had to check, but yes, Mr Assange is still in political asylum at the embassy of Ecuador in London. I also had to the check the date, but it's not April Fools' Day, or perhaps it is according to the new Mayan Calendar..."

Submission + - Julian Assange wanted for rape (expressen.se) 3

Submitted by mpawlo on Saturday August 21, 2010 @02:01AM

mpawlo writes: According to Swedish tabloid Expressen, Wikileaks founder Mr Julian Assange is wanted in Stockholm by the Swedish police, suspected for rape. According to the article the rape suspicion concerns two women. If this is real or a setup, I have no idea...

Comment Weird editing makes story unclear (Score 1) 299

by mpawlo on Friday June 22, 2007 @06:23PM (#19614669) Attached to: It's Hard To Run a Blog In Sweden

Someone did some weird editing to this story, making the links completely wrong. The first link is to a very old story published by the Register not at all related to this situation, but to an old Swedish situation regarding chat forums (not blogs). I think this link should actually be removed from the story.

What has happened in this case is that a preliminary investigation has been initiated. It is not a formal prosecution. This investigation is carried out by a prosecutor. I am afraid the editing makes this less clear.

When it comes to linking my original links was to the Swedish media reports on this case, which would clarify things further. It appears from Swedish media reports that Mr Bildt and his staff are constantly monitoring this blog for hateful comments, but that they missed this specific comment, even though a blogger claims to have pointed out this comment to Mr Bildt and his staff on several occassions. Personally, I do not know the circumstances well enough to tell what is facts and what is not in that respect, but it might affect whether Mr Bildt will be prosecuted or not. Perhaps some Swedish lawyer versed in the field could give a short brief of the current legal situation in this field.

Submission + - Bloody hard to run a blog in Sweden

Submitted by

mpawlo

on Friday June 22, 2007 @02:50AM

mpawlo writes: "Swedish media today reports that Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt is being investigated by a prosecutor because of his blog. In a blog post, Mr Bildt states that some 13.000 comments are posted on his blog and that he and his staff try to erase all inapproriate comments. However, in the comment being investigated, genocide of palestinians has been proposed. This comment was not erased, which prompted a Swedish leftist blogger to report the conservative foreign minister's blog and the comment to the authorities. Now a prosecutor is looking into the blog and the foreign minister will likely be held responsible for the comments due to poor Swedish legislation on freedom of speech in relation to the Internet.

Mr Bildt has been in the digital frontline for many years. As the prime minister of Sweden, he sent email to president Clinton, thus becoming the first national leader to use email to communicate with another national leader. He has been adviser to ICANN and has now recently been the first foreign minister to blog extensively. It would be very sad to see him limit his efforts just because it is bloody hard to run a blog with comments in Sweden."

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