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| Warrant Issued For Sex Crimes By WikiLeaks Founder |
| By nytimes.com |
| Published: 12/02/2010 |
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LONDON — Sweden’s highest court refused on Thursday to grant permission for Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing organization, to appeal a court order seeking his arrest to face questioning over alleged sex crimes, his lawyer and said. U.S. Weighs Prosecution of WikiLeaks Founder, but Legal Scholars Warn of Steep Hurdles (December 2, 2010) Interpol Called for Arrest of WikiLeaks Founder (December 2, 2010) In a telephone interview, Mark Stephens, Mr. Assange’s British lawyer, said the ruling by the High Court in Stockholm exhausted his client’s legal options to overturn the court order in Sweden, where the offenses are alleged to have taken place. Thursday’s ruling in Stockholm came a day after Interpol, the global police body, said it had been circulating a so-called red notice seeking Mr. Assange’s arrest for almost two weeks. Reuters quoted Kerstin Norman, a Swedish High Court official, as saying the ruling meant that earlier calls for Mr. Assange’s arrest were still in force. In a statement issued from its headquarters in the French city of Lyon, Interpol said on Wednesday that it had issued its call on Nov. 20, two days after Swedish prosecutors won court approval for a warrant that Interpol could circulate, and that it had only now received Sweden’s authorization to make its action public. Read More. |
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