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VIDEO - RT News - Defence Witness: Assange sex-crime case fabricated by prosecutors (2011)
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Defence Witness: Assange sex-crime case
fabricated by prosecutors
RT NEWS
Studio Presenter
The verdict in the
high profile case of the WikiLeaks founder has been adjourned for
two weeks.
Julian Assange
appeared in court in London on Friday as he continues his battle
against extradition to Sweden where he faces questioning over sex
crime allegations.
He claims the case
was fabricated so the US can use Sweden to hand him over on espionage
charges.
RT's Laura Emmett has been keeping track of developments from outside the court.
RT NEWS
Reporter,
London
“All we're waiting
for is the verdict, and that is due to be delivered, we now know, on
the 24th of February – so in a couple of weeks' time.
We were hearing
today the closing statements made by both the defence and the
prosecution, and now the judge is going to presumably retire to his
chambers for two weeks to think about the evidence that he's heard
and then come up finally with a verdict.
So on the 24th
of February. We're not expecting that to take very long. Literally
everyone will just gather here and the judge will tell us what he's
decided.
In terms of what
we've been hearing on Friday morning, we essentially heard summaries
of the evidence from the prosecution and from the defence. The
prosecution has maintained all along and maintained today that
there's no reason why Assange shouldn't go to Sweden to answer these
questions.
Following the news
of that postponement, Julian Assange came out of the court and gave a
short statement to the media. He used that statement to highlight
what he called the injustices of the European Arrest Warrant, under
which his extradition is being requested.
Let's see what he
had to say.
JULIAN ASSANGE
WikiLeaks Founder
It gives me hope
that we can, through this particular case, not simply draw attention
to the difficulties and the pressures that we and other people have
been under, but, rather, perhaps we have an opportunity to set a new
precedent about the abuses of European Arrest Warrants.
RT NEWS
Reporter,
London
We heard some
graphic details from the defence about these alleged assaults, sort
of almost making light of these allegations, as the prosecution said,
talking about the sexual encounters that took place with two women in
August.
And we also heard an
angry statement by the defence solicitor about comments that the
Swedish Prime Minister has made recently about Julian
Assange. The defence called that a devastatingly prejudicial attack,
and said that the Swedish Prime Minister had spread
malicious lies about Julian Assange, suggesting that he believes that
women's rights are worthless, and also suggesting that he's already
been charged with this 'rape', which, in fact, is not the case at
all.
MARK STEVENS
Defence
In any decent
country, the rule of law is separate from the political process. It
appears that in Sweden it is not, and that the Prime Minister has, I
am afraid to say, sought to taint the legal process. Just one more
example of the quite exceptional behaviour in the Julian Assange case
– another Assange factor.
RT NEWS
Reporter,
London
We heard some quite
graphic details from the defence about these alleged assaults –
sort of, almost making light of these allegations, as the prosecution
said – talking about these sexual encounters that took place with
two women in August.
And we also heard an
angry statement by the defence solicitor about comments that the
Swedish Prime Minister has made recently about Julian
Assange. The defence called that a devastatingly prejudicial attack
and said that the Swedish Prime Minister had spread
malicious lies about Julian Assange, suggesting that he believes that
women's rights are worthless, and also suggesting that he's already
been charged with this 'rape', which, in fact, is not the case at
all.
So that has brought
in a rather worrying political element to the case.
We also heard from
the defence that these charges would not constitute 'rape' here in
the UK, and, in fact, the defence maintains that the essence of the
charges wouldn't constitute 'rape' anywhere else in the world, apart
from in Sweden.
I spoke earlier to
Goran Rudling, who's a Swedish rape campaigner, and he told me about
the bizarre way in which the investigation has been conducted from
the very beginning.
GORAN RUDLING
Defence Witness
It looked like
Julian was declared innocent by one prosecutor.
Then you have to
find out immediately find out, OK, what's the truth: what's his side
of the story?
What they did
instead was try to collect evidence and they interviewed all kinds of
witnesses, in another way which wasn't very good, to try to build a
case against him.
It's like prejudice.
Like they're saying: 'He's guilty; let's get him.”
And of thirteen
people interviewed by the police, three are tape-recorded. Only
three. Julian is tape-recorded on the 30th of August .
The two witnesses that could speak in his favour are tape-recorded.
All the other witnesses are just summary interviews.
Sometimes accusers
change their story, and if we don't have their story, we can't
compare it to the suspect's story. It's impossible to investigate.
RT NEWS
Reporter,
London
This is also a case
that has descended at times into a farce, and today is no exception.
There's a new book
out by a man called Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who used to
work with Julian Assange at WikiLeaks, and he has essentially written
a book about Assange and his relationship with him.
He says that Assange
has an 'emperor complex', that he wants to be the king and the
all-powerful person over everything, and he also alleges that Assange
has turned into the sort of man that he used to hate, the sort of man
that he used to want to bring to justice.
But the most bizarre
thing about the allegations that Domscheit-Berg has
made is something to do with his cat. He said that
Assange lived with him for a while in Weisbaden in Germany and that
Domscheit-Berg has a cat which Julian entered into a
war of supremacy with, essentially attacking the cat and then pulling
back, seeing who would win. Sometimes the cat won, sometimes Assange
won. And he says that that shows that Assange is some kind of
power-hungry maniac.
So, really, a lot of
people are trying to jump on this bandwagon to take advantage of
Assange's fame or infamy, depending on which way you look at it.
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