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Originally Posted by Rizla
Except that he's not a serial rapist. In Sweden, there is a law against not using a condom without the consent of the other party. That is what he's been accused of, and not convicted of. [political comment removed] So get your facts rights.
Edit: Apologies to mods if this comment belongs in the politics and religion section. Feel free to remove it. But please, remove the post I quoted as well.
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I'm sorry, but I think you might be misinformed. Here's what Assange is accused of:
Miss W phoned Assange and arranged to meet him late in the evening, according to her statement. The pair went back to her flat in Enkoping, near Stockholm. Miss W told police that though they started to have sex, Assange had not wanted to wear a condom, and she had moved away because she had not wanted unprotected sex. Assange had then lost interest, she said, and fallen asleep. However, during the night, they had both woken up and had sex at least once when "he agreed unwillingly to use a condom".
Early the next morning, Miss W told police, she had gone to buy breakfast before getting back into bed and falling asleep beside Assange. She had awoken to find him having sex with her, she said, but when she asked whether he was wearing a condom he said no. "According to her statement, she said: 'You better not have HIV' and he answered: 'Of course not,' " but "she couldn't be bothered to tell him one more time because she had been going on about the condom all night. She had never had unprotected sex before."
(source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010...assange-sweden )
So, what Assange is accused of is not sexual intercourse without a rubber - rather, it is
sexual intercourse with a sleeping woman, without a rubber, with him being fully aware that this is without her consent.
But, she did have consensual sex with him previous to that. This is not what he is being accused of, but it did happen. With extreme cynicism, one of Assanges lawyers informed the public that
»The consent of both women to sex with Assange has been confirmed by prosecutors,«. In itself, this is quite true - but the lawyer fails to mention that that what his client has been accused of isn't the consensual sex, but the
rape that took place afterwards.
Another of Assanges lawyers, Mark Stephen, claimed that
»Assange is wanted not for allegations of rape, as previously reported, but for something called ‘sex by surprise.’« And what does that mean, exactly? It turns out that this is a translation of the Swedish s
överraskningssex, which is slang for ... rape!