Assange claims “people affiliated with our organization have already been assassinated”

BBC
December 21, 2010

• A d v e r t i s e m e n t

The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been holed up in a mansion in East Anglia since he was released from prison last week.

He is under strict bail conditions while he fights extradition to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning about claims of sexual assault.

Today programme presenter John Humphrys went to meet him for what is Mr Assange’s first face-to-face broadcast interview since his release.

Q: Why won’t you go back to Sweden?

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JA: I have been back. I was there for some five weeks after these initial allegations were made. They were dropped within 24 hours of them first being made. The most senior prosecutor in Stockholm reviewed them and they were dropped. Then politician Claes Borgstrom became involved, other forces became involved and the case, the investigative part of the case, was taken up again. We waited some four/five weeks to be interviewed, so I could put my side of this case forward, and that did not happen.

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This article was posted: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 5:04 pm

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