Julian Assange Arrested In London

by Colby Hall | 7:52 am, December 7th, 2010

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The Associated Press is reporting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has surrendered to London police this morning, as part of an investigation surrounding a Swedish sex-crime. This would be the latest in a string of blows to WikiLeaks,an organization that has recently faced a lot of problems since releasing a number of leaked documents, most recently a tranche of secret U.S. diplomatic cables that as brought some unrest and embarrassment to U.S. diplomatic efforts.

The Associated Press reports:

Assange was due at Westminster Magistrate’s Court later Tuesday. If he challenges his extradition to Sweden, he will likely be remanded into custody or released on bail until another judge rules on whether to extradite him, a spokeswoman for the extradition department said on customary condition of anonymity.

Since beginning to release the cables last week, WikiLeaks has seen its bank accounts canceled, its web sites attacked and the U.S. government launch a criminal investigation, saying the group has jeopardized national security and diplomatic efforts around the world. It has also seen supporters come to its aid by setting up over 500 mirror sites around the world.

Read the full report, via NPR.org here.

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Just4thefax

Fact: Julian meet Bubba butt banger!
Pablo

Hoo boy! No bail, the Swiss have closed his defense fund bank account and Visa has cut off payments to Wikileaks. Julian is not having a good day. I wonder if this is enough to trigger the DOOMSDAY MACHINE!!!

What a third rate Bond villain. Wasn’t he the bad guy in the one where the love interest was named Venereal Disease?
Thelonious Funk

Hurray! Let’s cheer the continuing persecution of an organization that has yet to even be charged with a crime, let alone convicted. Remember, if you don’t like something, it’s automatically against the law.
The_Reasonable_Lib

Something tells me that either nothing will come of this or it will al end very poorly with that “poison pill”
Pablo

Thelonious Funk said:
Hurray! Let’s cheer the continuing persecution of an organization that has yet to even be charged with a crime, let alone convicted. Remember, if you don’t like something, it’s automatically against the law.

If he wasn’t charged with a crime, we wouldn’t be talking about bail.
Nachi

That’s sad. What an international “set-up.”
Helix

This looks to me like a modern day version of the “honeypot” setup. I would suspect someone in the Swedish prosecution dept is playing politics with a weak or nonexistant case, with an eye to doing the US a favor. This doesn’t mean Julian was right to do what he did with Wikileaks, but the girls appeared to have post-coitial regrets after finding out they were not his one and only. Also one of the girls had web published a seven step guideline to revenge on men, at least according to the Daily Mail(UK). Hope the fun Julian had was worth the trouble….
Some_Dude

Too bad he doesn’t face an American butt busting prison. Just because.
padma

Is letting the world know a crime, Is it not the right of the World to know. The question remains ? Will the world suspect a conspiracy behind the arrest of wiki leaks who wildly SHOOK Pentagon. http://forexinternationaldesk.com