Assange's Swedish "Sex Crimes" Accuser Flees to Middle East, May Not Be Cooperating with Police

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Report: Assange's Swedish Sex Crimes Accuser Flees to Middle East, May Not Be Cooperating with Police
An Australian news site reports that Anna Ardin has moved to the Palestinian territories to work for a peace organization.
By Daniel Tencer
December 10, 2010

Advertisement One of the two Swedish women who have filed sex complaints against the founder of WikiLeaks has reportedly left Sweden and may no longer be cooperating with the criminal investigation.

According to a report at Australian news site Crikey.com, Anna Ardin has moved to the Palestinian territories to volunteer with a Christian group working to reconcile Arabs and Israelis.

Crikey.com reports:

One source from Ardin’s old university of Uppsala reported rumors that she had stopped co-operating with the prosecution service several weeks ago, and that this was part of the reason for the long delay in proceeding with charges — and what still appears to be an absence of charges.

Ardin's blog shows that she has recently posted from the Palestinian territories. Her most recent blog posts make no mention of WikiLeaks or its founder, Julian Assange.

Assange's lawyer, renowned British advocate Mark Stephens, told CBS News Thursday that prosecutor Marianne Ny is staging a "show trial," in reference to the politically motivated prosecutions of the Stalin-era Soviet Union.

Stephens said not only have formal charges not been filed against Assange, but the prosecution has failed to provide him with any documentation relating to the investigation. As a result, he says it's impossible for him to begin crafting a defense.

http://www.alternet.org/story/149143/report%3A_assange%27s_swedish_sex_crimes_accuser_flees_to_middle_east%2C_may_not_be_cooperating_with_police/

[Drale]

1. Wait hold on a minute

a women who accused someone of a sex crime, moved to the middle east, where they have never heard of a sex crime?

[Lance_Boyle]

3. Sure they have!

Hasn't been more than 4 months since Israel locked up a Palestinian dude for having consensual sex with a Jewish woman. The crime? She thought he was Jewish when she consented.

[Behind the Aegis]

5. 4 months and your still spouting the misinformation? Sad.

He was charged with the lesser charge because of a plea bargain. He raped her. Don't let the truth interfere with your Israel-bashing propaganda.

[Lance_Boyle]

6. Cite?

From what I've read, she refused to testify in a rape trial, citing past trauma. So the plea was arranged, and she went along with that. Absent a trial to prove that any rape occurred, how are you so certain of your view on this? Surely you believe in the fundamental right of the accused to face the accuser in court? And if the accuser refuses that, how do we determine what happened?

[Behind the Aegis]

7. ....

Recently, the Tel Aviv weekly Ha'ir published the transcript of the trial in which Sabbar Kashur, an Arab, was convicted of rape by deceit, duping a woman by posing as a Jew named Dudu. As it turns out according to the report by Lital Grossman, the sex was not consensual, but was actually rape, of the clear-cut, cruel "simple" kind.

"He told me that if I were quiet and did not resist, then it would be, like, it would be over more quickly and it would not be, like, he would not use force. But I did resist and it was by force" - with blood and scratches and scars, which are documented at the hospital to which she was taken.

Indeed, the original indictment was for forcible rape and the accused was the one to initiate the plea bargain, in which he confessed "only" to rape by deception.

And all this time I, too, thought that the court was racist and what would be natural with a Jewish guy was considered rape when with an Arab. I, too, did not stop to think that it is unlikely that a woman would jump on a guy named Dudu, drag him off for wild consensual sex and when she found out his name was Sabbar, would complain that he had raped her.

source

[Better Believe It]

8. Assange hasn't been charged with anything. Post a copy of the charges if you think he has been.

That's what this post is all about.

Let's stay on topic.

Thanks.

[Behind the Aegis]

9. You're "listening and watching?" You should be reading.

The other poster wasn't talking about Assange, nor was I.

Edit: Perhaps your comment is best directed at the person who changed the topic, not the one who corrected it.

[Better Believe It]

10. That's my point! You're both off topic! So just don't get involved in or encourage

any accidental hijack attempts!

[Behind the Aegis]

11. His errors had to be addressed. This is a *discussion* board.

Besides, there is always the other three versions of this article for people to post. Are you familiar with irony?

[Better Believe It]

14. The above posted news report turned out to be false. See post #12.

[valerief]

2. He's been gitmoed. nt

[Kennah]

4. CIA transfered her to a different field office

[TorchTheWitch]

12. It's False

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20025270-503543.html
December 10, 2010 5:31 AM
Julian Assange Accuser "Still in Sweden"

The coordinator of a Christian outreach group in the West Bank denied reports Friday that one of two women accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex offenses had left Sweden and traveled to a town in the Palestinian territory.

Australian news website "Crikey" reported on Thursday that Anna Ardin had traveled to the town of Yanoun, in the West Bank, with the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Jerusalem and Israel (EAPPI) earlier this week.

Ardin, however, "cancelled her participation because we anticipated this," program coordinator Pauline Nunu told CBSNews.com Friday morning in a telephone interview. "She's still in Sweden and she's not coming to Palestine."


The only journalist who came up with this fib, Guy Rundle, from Crikey is the only one falsely reporting it, but at least he admitted that her attorney said it was false and she is still cooperating. Shame on him for spreading false rumors and doing no fact checking. I have zero respect for any journalist willing to do such a thing and so should everyone else. And shame on Crikey for printing it without checking his non-existent fact checking. He's no better than a crap journalist at Fox for doing this and Crikey is no better than Fox for for printing it without checking his non-existent fact checking. This isn't journalism, it's propaganda bullshit - exactly what Wikileaks fights against.


I also have a lot of trouble with Rundle for some of his views, particularly being against same sex couple adoptions and specifically male same sex couple adoptions. Being against same sex couple adoptions is bad enough, but being even more adverse to MALE same sex couple adoption says a lot about this guy:

http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/14/rundle-against-male-same-s-x-couple-adoption/
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Rundle: against male same-sex couple adoption
by Guy Rundle

<snip>

The trouble is that really, the issue isn't and can't be constructed as a mere extension of consenting rights. Fundamental questions have to be asked about a fairly dramatic socio-legal change  —  and reflection on that would, I suggest, lead one to conclude that same-sex adoption  —  specifically male-couple adoption  —  should not be legalised.

[Better Believe It]

13. Thanks for your correction!

[TorchTheWitch]

15. no problem

This is how false stories get spread so easily and people think they're real. One journalist writes something that's explosive that they basically pulled out of their butt, other journalists pick it up and print the same thing and just source back to the same smear article somewhere in the body of their articles and people think it's true because a) a lot of media outlets are reporting it, and b) a lot of those media outlets are ones they trust.

What annoys me the most about this propaganda crap is that even though it's supportive of Wikileaks/Assange it's exactly the behavior Wikileaks fights against and is the whole reason they exist.