Julian Assange facing secret rape trial in Sweden
LONDON — Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, must be extradited to Sweden to face accusations of sexual abuse, a British court ordered Thursday. Mr. Assange immediately said he would appeal the decision. Judge Howard Riddle took just over an hour to issue a sweeping dismissal of the defense team’s arguments — from arcane technical points to dark suggestions that Mr. Assange would not receive a fair trial in Sweden and might even face extradition to the United States, imprisonment at the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, prison and possibly death. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336291/Wikileaks-Julian-Assanges-2-night-stands-spark-worldwide-hunt.html In Sweden these are secret trials: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-07/assange-lawyer-tells-u-k-court-swedish-prosecutor-abusing-power.html An interesting profile of Anna Ardin, the Swedish University professor who accused Julian Assange of rape. A Swedish forum reports that she is an expert on sexual harassment and the male “master s