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Originally Posted by Sagi_AFF
Under Muslim law showing too much ankle is punishable by death. We don't talk about women walking barefoot as committing a crime worthy of capital punishment.
I don't defend him or Wikileaks but when you refer to Assange as allegedly committing rape it doesn't bring up the thought that he had consensual sex without a condom. Doesn't seem fair to him or to people who have actually suffered what most of us consider rape.
I'm still shocked that he could be arrested for that while in another country. What if you walk on the lawn in the US and there is a sign that says not to? Can you be napped in Europe and sent to the US for trial? Actually this is worst since having sex without protection isn't a crime in the UK (at least as far as I know). This is really scary stuff the governments are up to here.
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I don't speak Swedish. If they translate it to me as rape, it is pretty much rape until a Swede tells me otherwise. Sodomy always meant anal to me, but apparently a blow job is also sodomy. The word of the law is what counts. Whether I agree is usually irrelevant, although I have overturned one at the appellate level. ;) Besides, I have not read the charges so I do not know the whole story.
As far as him being arrested in another country, I am going to make the presumption that both countries involved are in the EU it would be like getting busted in OK for something you did in CA. Besides, he turned himself in.