#Assange remember that unethical lawyers in UK prosecution service told Sweden to continue pursuit of Assange after it decided not to do so @SMaurizi has revealed this.

— Greg Barns (@BarnsGreg) May 13, 2019

Sexual assault cannot be defended as "sex by surprise".

However the rape accusation in Sweden had a political motive as the charges on appeal were brought forward by a new prosecutor in Göteborg, Marianne Ny.

○ Sweden Reopens Investigation of Julian Assange for Rape, Complicating U.S. Extradition

"Giving priority to the Swedish extradition request would demonstrate that the British government takes its responsibility to ensure women's safety seriously."

Have a peaceful cultural summer

The superseding indictment filed in the Eastern District of Virginia brings the total number of U.S. charges against Assange to 18.

Assange, 47, was indicted in Marchon one count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for allegedly helping Manning crack a password to a classified military database, which allowed her to gain access to hundreds of thousands of secret military documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as information about detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.
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Terwilliger said the charges also do not involve all of the documents WikiLeaks released, but just a specific subset that revealed particularly sensitive information that endangered the lives of people who provided information to the United States.  

Demers also distanced Assange from journalists by saying no journalist would publish information identifying intelligence sources operating in dangerous conditions.

"Julian Assange is no journalist," Demers told reporters.