Published: Sep. 10, 2012
Words: 97,025 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781301932948

Short description

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, was in Sweden for almost seven weeks during August and September 2010. What happened to him during those seven weeks is a story familiar to many people in Sweden, because it is in the Swedish language. Here, for the first time, is the story for English-speaking readers.

Extended description

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, was in Sweden for almost seven weeks during August and September 2010. What happened to him during those seven weeks is a story familiar to many people in Sweden, because it is in the Swedish language. Here, for the first time, is the story for English-speaking readers, much of it from official Swedish police documents. The first section of the book reports items day by day. Assange was invited to Sweden to give a seminar. He gave his seminar on Saturday 14 August and that evening a crayfish party was held in his honour. On Wednesday 18 August, he applied for a work permit and residence permit in Sweden. With these permits he would also be able to apply for a publishing certificate which would give him and WikiLeaks strong legal protection in Sweden. On Friday 20 August two women walked into a police station. That evening, Julian Assange was sought for arrest on suspicion of rape and this was reported in the newspaper Expressen and subsequently w.. (Read more) Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, was in Sweden for almost seven weeks during August and September 2010. What happened to him during those seven weeks is a story familiar to many people in Sweden, because it is in the Swedish language. Here, for the first time, is the story for English-speaking readers, much of it from official Swedish police documents. The first section of the book reports items day by day. Assange was invited to Sweden to give a seminar. He gave his seminar on Saturday 14 August and that evening a crayfish party was held in his honour. On Wednesday 18 August, he applied for a work permit and residence permit in Sweden. With these permits he would also be able to apply for a publishing certificate which would give him and WikiLeaks strong legal protection in Sweden. On Friday 20 August two women walked into a police station. That evening, Julian Assange was sought for arrest on suspicion of rape and this was reported in the newspaper Expressen and subsequently world-wide. The next day the arrest order was cancelled and the suspicion of rape dropped. On Wednesday 1 September, the suspicion of rape against Assange was resurrected. On Monday 27 September Assange had waited for almost four weeks to be interrogated by the police but nothing had happened so he left Sweden. Other sections of the book provide information on key events, short biographies of the main characters, a review of the Swedish justice system, full translations of all the available police documents, and a final section reports the legal and business activities of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks in Sweden during that period.
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sweden, wikileaks, assange, julian assange

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Review by: Howard Robins on Dec. 07, 2012 :
I read this interesting book. It appears to be a factual account of some very questionable activities on the part of the Swedish authorities in their treatment of Julian Assange, coinciding with visits to Sweden by important American officials. The book consists of excerpts from original sources, pieced together chronologically, which make dry but convincing reading. The main components are excerpts from police interrogations of Julian Assange, the two complainants, and a number of witnesses. Also, excerpts from the Swedish media, including the newspapers Expressen, Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Juridik, TV, radio, the Swedish Prosecution Authority, web sites such as Rixstep, blogs, the Flashback discussion thread, police memos, You Tube and some English language sources. It is unfortunate that the book was not published earlier than two years after the events it describes, but understandably the work of researching and above all translating must have been colossal, which perhaps explains the delay. The conclusion I draw from reading the book is that Julian Assange was framed and the events he is accused of never happened.
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