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Despite what has happened, the woman [Miss A, Anna Ardin] who organized the event and had Assange stay at her apartment told [the Swedish newspaper] Aftonbladet that she never intended that Assange be charged with rape.
"It is quite wrong [to say] that we were afraid of him. He is not violent, and I do not feel threatened by him," she told the newspaper in an interview that did not identify her by name. "The responsibility for what happened to me and the other girl lies with a man who had attitude problems with women."
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/02/sex-by-surprise-at-heart-of-assange-criminal-probe/
See also http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article7652935.ab
[[ ETA: A more complete translation has been offered at http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/7418428.html?thread=457394748#t457394748 ]]
At that time, August 2010, the chief prosecutor, Eva Finne, agreed with Miss A that there was no reason to suspect rape. (A senior prosecutor since reversed the decision again and added 'rape' back into the charges (perhaps necessary for extradition).
A public figure who got the case re-opened and is now acting as the women's lawyer mansplained that she did not know she had been raped because "she is not a jurist."
Imo with Ardin's feminist activist background, her own opinion should be accepted -- as she stated it to the newspaper before she was caught in the police/political machinery.
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"It is quite wrong [to say] that we were afraid of him. He is not violent, and I do not feel threatened by him," she told the newspaper in an interview that did not identify her by name. "The responsibility for what happened to me and the other girl lies with a man who had attitude problems with women."
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/02/sex-by-surprise-at-heart-of-assange-criminal-probe/
See also http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article7652935.ab
[[ ETA: A more complete translation has been offered at http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/7418428.html?thread=457394748#t457394748 ]]
At that time, August 2010, the chief prosecutor, Eva Finne, agreed with Miss A that there was no reason to suspect rape. (A senior prosecutor since reversed the decision again and added 'rape' back into the charges (perhaps necessary for extradition).
A public figure who got the case re-opened and is now acting as the women's lawyer mansplained that she did not know she had been raped because "she is not a jurist."
Imo with Ardin's feminist activist background, her own opinion should be accepted -- as she stated it to the newspaper before she was caught in the police/political machinery.
( Read more... )
