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Wikileaks Julian Assange: Marianne Ny Swedish Prosecutor Biased?
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by NowPublic Staff | February 7, 2011 at 10:28 am
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Wikileaks Julian Assange Extradition Hearing: Marianne Ny, Swedish Prosecutor Biased?
Marianne Ny, the Swedish public prosecutor, requesting the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, is biased the Belmarsh Magistrates Court in South East London heard on Monday.
Julian Assange is now officially wanted in Sweden on a "minor rape" charge. Brita Sundberg-Weitman, a former Swedish judge, appearing on the behalf of the Assange defense team, told the UK court that public prosecutor, Marianne Ny could easily have questioned Assange via Skype or phone instead of requesting the extradition.
She said: "Miss Ny has a rather biased view against men in the treatment of sexual offence cases. They seem to take it for granted that everyone under prosecution is guilty. I honestly can’t understand her attitude. It looks malicious … I think maybe she wants to make him suffer.”
The former judge, who is now an associate professor of Law at Stockholm, University, added that Miss Ny was "involved in sexual politics" which was "very much" a political issue in Sweden.
The Julain Assange extradition request is based on an European Arrest Warrant. Assange's defense teams argues the warrant is invalid because Julian Assange has not been formally charged in Sweden.
They said the European Arrest Warrant under which he had been detained was invalid because he had not yet been charged. It was only Monday that the UK court learned of the Marianne Ny's intention of charging Mr. Assange.
Clare Montgomery QC, representing the Swedish authorities has argued the Australian must face charges of rape and sexual molestation following the accusation of two women.
She told the court rape is one of 32 offences that warrants extradition, and Mr Assange was accused of having sex with one woman without a condom, despite her saying she would only consent if he wore one.
The other woman's claims implicitly suggested a lack of consent, she added.
"Mr Assange, by using violence, forced Miss A to endure him restricting her freedom of movement, taking hold of her arms, forcefully spreading her legs and lying on top of her," she said.
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at 11:13 on February 14th, 2011
This is an outrageous case of state intervention in the bedroom, reeks of totalitarianism, and in Sweden of all places! Forget about Swedish girls, boys, go to Russia.:) How could you be so stupid, Julian, I think you should buy a Victorian chastity belt while in England and never take it off!
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Benson2 (not verified)at 09:15 on February 15th, 2011
Normal 0 I think that the most of the Swedish people think that Assange has been crossed the allowed boundaries of the law. He said that his box of rape after the trial shall be empty. I think that he has been lied a little bit and did something in the grey zone. His lie is necessary because Sweden has terrible laws about sexual assaults for man against woman. In Sweden it’s always a he which is arrested for rape , waited sometimes a long time in jail before he go to court. The he would not get a fair trial. Hearing of rape cases are behind closed doors and they believe the woman first and there is also a political influence. Sweden makes the law for rape very complicate. If the woman go to the police than they make the arrest warrant without risk for the woman. Sweden thinks that they are one of the best guys of Europe and have a modern state with modern laws. I think that’s wrong if I look how they handle crimes of sexual assaults. On this moment with Marianne Ny as prosecuter for rape cases I think that Sweden is a kind of Saoedi Arab with as victim men. If I look to the black pages in the history of sexual crime in Sweden against women I think the government must look good to her own history of the twentieth century before she makes such inhumane strong laws against men. Sweden has a terrible sexual crime history, because in the past she has been made it for some groups of the inhabitants impossible to get children. They sterilized in the twentieth century a lot of Swedish women. This group in the North of Sweden was unwanted and must be limited. So Sweden be careful if you make and use laws against sexual assaults and suppose that you make and use the laws better than in the beginning of this century. Normal people and governments are not without any crime. What the Swedish prosecuter do with the foreigner Assange is unfair. In my opnion a rape-process with prosecuter Marianne Ny and unsympathetic woman Anna Ardin is barbarian. After Anna Ardin thought that Assange damaged the condom it’s normal in that kind of situations that she directly try to stop the sex action and ask Assange to leave her flat. She did not. Witnesses also confirm that Anna Ardin behaved like nothing had happened after the alleged rape. The witnesses it also appears as if Anna Ardin was not having any issues with Assange until she found out that Sofia Wilen had had sex with Assang . The second case with Sofia Wilen is more complicate. If she is not infected than I think compassion with Assange after a letter of regret and a financial compensation of Assange is also better than a trial.