Saturday, August 21, 2010

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange facing arrest over rape charge

Picture of Julian Assange during a talk at 26C3Image via Wikipedia
Julian Assange 
Wikileaks, the website home of what is estimated to be 70,000 classified documents relating to the War in Afghanistan, has a new problem.

According to the Telegraph UK, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange facing arrest over what the news site in quotations lists as a 'rape' charge.

The warrant was issued in Sweden where Julian Assange was visiting. WikiLeaks reportedly keeps its servers there. Julian Assange also gave a speech there recently and agreed to publish bi-monrhly columns for a newspaper.

On Wikileaks Twitter page @Wikileaks, the issue was addressed:


Julian Assange: the charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing.
about 3 hours ago via bitly


The news also comes as Pentagon officials are considering filing their own criminal charges against Wikileaks for what they claim is theft of government property.

Stay tuned.
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