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Rape accuser urges action on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
AFP
May 23, 2013 10:46AM
... "Sweden must put pressure on Ecuador to get Assange handed over to Sweden," Elisabeth Massi Fritz, a lawyer for one of the two accusers, wrote in a statement.
"There has been much speculation in the media, much of it incorrect ... This is not about any kind of conspiracy as some media outlets have claimed. My client is a plaintiff and a victim," she said ...
"I can say that Assange's claims about his extradition to the US, where he, according to his own account, would face the death penalty, is merely a way of circumventing the law in various countries to avoid taking responsibility for the acts he is currently suspected of committing," Massi Fritz wrote ...
Assange's other accuser wrote in April about her ordeal on her blog, speaking out for what the Swedish media said was the first time ...
"There has been much speculation in the media, much of it incorrect ... This is not about any kind of conspiracy as some media outlets have claimed. My client is a plaintiff and a victim," she said ...
"I can say that Assange's claims about his extradition to the US, where he, according to his own account, would face the death penalty, is merely a way of circumventing the law in various countries to avoid taking responsibility for the acts he is currently suspected of committing," Massi Fritz wrote ...
Assange's other accuser wrote in April about her ordeal on her blog, speaking out for what the Swedish media said was the first time ...
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/rape-accuser-urges-action-on-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange/story-fn775xjq-1226649027660
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