Sweden Defends Assange Warrant Decisions: Mistake? What mistake?

Update to previous stories:

SkunkPost.com || Mistake? What mistake?:

KARL RITTER, Associated Press Writer

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish prosecutors defended their handling of a rape allegation against the founder of WikiLeaks, saying Sunday that they had made no mistakes in issuing an arrest warrant and withdrawing it less than a day later.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said the short-lived warrant had damaged his group nonetheless.

The Swedish Prosecution Authority said an 'on-call' prosecutor issued an arrest warrant for Assange late Friday only to see it revoked the next day by a higher-ranked prosecutor, who found no grounds to suspect him of rape.

'The prosecutor who took over the case yesterday had more information, and that is why she made a different assessment than the on-call prosecutor,' said Karin Rosander, a spokeswoman for the authority.

She declined to specify what the new material was, but said there was 'absolutely nothing' that suggested errors had been made by either prosecutor.

Slashdot is covering this now (Sunday August 22, @01:27PM).


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Sweden withdraws arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange - Winnipeg Free Press

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Sweden withdraws arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange - Winnipeg Free Press:

"STOCKHOLM - Swedish prosecutors withdrew an arrest warrant for the founder of WikiLeaks on Saturday, saying less than a day after the document was issued that it was based on an unfounded accusation of rape.

The accusation had been labelled a dirty trick by Julian Assange and his group, who are preparing to release a fresh batch of classified U.S. documents from the Afghan war.

Swedish prosecutors had urged Assange _ a nomadic 39-year-old Australian whose whereabouts were unclear _ to turn himself in to police to face questioning in one case involving suspicions of rape and another based on an accusation of molestation.

'I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape,' chief prosecutor Eva Finne said, in announcing the withdrawal of the warrant. She did not address the status of the molestation case, a less serious charge that would not lead to an arrest warrant.
Prosecutors did not answer phone calls seeking further comment."

What are the Swedes doing tossing about warrants like this for?


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Feds - Online 'Sextortion' of Teens on the Rise - NYTimes.com

Feds - Online 'Sextortion' of Teens on the Rise - NYTimes.com:

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The nightmare began with a party: three teenage girls with a webcam, visiting an Internet chatroom and yielding to requests to flash their breasts. A week later, one of the girls, a 17-year-old from Indiana, started getting threatening e-mails.

A stranger said he had captured her image on the webcam and would post the pictures to her MySpace friends unless she posed for more explicit pictures and videos for him. On at least two occasions, the teen did what her blackmailer demanded. Finally, police and federal authorities became involved and indicted a 19-year-old Maryland man in June on charges of sexual exploitation.

Federal prosecutors and child safety advocates say they're seeing an upswing in such cases of online sexual extortion. They say teens who text nude cell phone photos of themselves or show off their bodies on the Internet are being contacted by pornographers who threaten to expose their behavior to friends and family unless they pose for more explicit porn, creating a vicious cycle of exploitation.

Series tie-in: Although minors sharing personal porn is still illegal, 2030's society in general is much more transparent. People are constantly recording and sharing every manner of personal antics. Couples frequently share their home security video of their first time, even if it is a one night stand.

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