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Not really surprising considering the many other blatant lies in the Assange case. For example to this day barely anybody seems aware about the fact how Swedis

Not really surprising considering the many other blatant lies in the Assange case. For example to this day barely anybody seems aware about the fact how Swedish police changed witness testimonies to create rape accusations that were never even made by the two women, to have these nasty accusations leaked to the press only hours later, in the middle of the night. That's only one of the many findings by the UN rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer. His investigation into the Assange case is probably one of the best and most neutral takes on it, but if true also a really scary one [0] [0] https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...

TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
Are you saying there was no credible rape accusation?
- puchatek 5y ago
  That's what I recall from an interview with Melzer a while back too. Don't recall the details though.
- hedora 5y ago
  There was no rape accusation, full stop. Here are the allegations: He had consensual sex, and the condom broke. He didn’t tell the woman after the fact, but she found it in the trash. She wanted him to get an HIV test. He refused. She tried to get the police to force him to get an HIV test. To her dismay, they decided to charge him with rape. This is all in the UN special rapporteur’s report, and apparently uncontested by everyone involved.
  - dariusj18 5y ago
    I'm not an expert on Swedish law, however rape is often a crime that people lobby to not require the victim to ask for charges. aka, The police/prosecutors get to make that decision.
- efdee 5y ago
  Yes.
rstuart4133 5y ago
Jesus, here I am thinking I pretty immune to the state propaganda machines. Yet what I read had me 100% convinced stress had tipped Assange had over the edge into paranoid delusional. If even half of what Nils Melzer says is true, Assange is one of the few participants in this saga behaving reasonably.

TedDoesntTalk 5y ago

Are you saying there was no credible rape accusation?

puchatek 5y ago
That's what I recall from an interview with Melzer a while back too. Don't recall the details though.
hedora 5y ago
There was no rape accusation, full stop. Here are the allegations: He had consensual sex, and the condom broke. He didn’t tell the woman after the fact, but she found it in the trash. She wanted him to get an HIV test. He refused. She tried to get the police to force him to get an HIV test. To her dismay, they decided to charge him with rape. This is all in the UN special rapporteur’s report, and apparently uncontested by everyone involved.
- dariusj18 5y ago
  I'm not an expert on Swedish law, however rape is often a crime that people lobby to not require the victim to ask for charges. aka, The police/prosecutors get to make that decision.
efdee 5y ago
Yes.

rstuart4133 5y ago

Jesus, here I am thinking I pretty immune to the state propaganda machines. Yet what I read had me 100% convinced stress had tipped Assange had over the edge into paranoid delusional. If even half of what Nils Melzer says is true, Assange is one of the few participants in this saga behaving reasonably.