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bemused_leftistDespite 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.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316
The Swedish Prosecution Authority website said chief prosecutor Eva Finne had come to the decision that Julian Assange was not subject to arrest.
In a brief statement Eva Finne said: "I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/21/julian-assange-wikileaks-arrest-warrant-sweden
"I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape," the chief prosecutor, Eva Finne, said.
She made no comment on the status of the molestation case, a less serious charge that would not lead to an arrest warrant.
"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.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316
The Swedish Prosecution Authority website said chief prosecutor Eva Finne had come to the decision that Julian Assange was not subject to arrest.
In a brief statement Eva Finne said: "I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/21/julian-assange-wikileaks-arrest-warrant-sweden
"I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape," the chief prosecutor, Eva Finne, said.
She made no comment on the status of the molestation case, a less serious charge that would not lead to an arrest warrant.
