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THE hunt may soon be over for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as the fugitive Australian plans to surrender to British police overnight.
Scotland Yard was expected to serve the 39-year-old with a European Arrest Warrant over alleged sexual assaults in Sweden earlier this year.
The warrant forms the first steps in extraditing Mr Assange, who is believed to be in hiding with friends southeast of London, to Sweden for questioning over the “sex crimes” claims.
Two women - who met Mr Assange when he was in Sweden for lectures - claimed he sexually attacked them.
Both said they had consensual sex with the notorious campaigner, but said he refused to wear a condom.
In more bad news for the Australian fugitive, it has emerged that another source of WikiLeaks’ crucial funds has been frozen in an attempt to cripple the whistleblowing website.
MasterCard has pulled the plug on payments to WikiLeaks, news website CNET reported.
The move will further financially starve the embattled website.
"MasterCard is taking action to ensure that WikiLeaks can no longer accept MasterCard-branded products," MasterCard Worldwide spokesman Chris Monteiro said.
"MasterCard rules prohibit customers from directly or indirectly engaging in or facilitating any action that is illegal.”
WikiLeaks has responded to threats on its funding with online pleas to "Keep us strong." People could still donate to the website using Visa, bank transfers, or sending donations by old-fashioned "snail mail."
The sudden move follows US Government pressure on any companies connected to WikiLeaks to “immediately terminate its relationship with them”.
WikiLeaks estimated they have so far lost Au$133,000 from missed donations due to the payment source collapses this week.
Swiss authorities also yesterday shut down a bank account belonging to Mr Assange.
The Swiss Post Office's banking arm said it closed an account set up by the Australian after he gave a false home address for Geneva but could not prove he lived there.
WikiLeaks had advertised the PostFinance account details online to "donate directly to the Julian Assange and other WikiLeaks Staff Defense Fund," giving an account name of "Assange Julian Paul, Geneve."
WikiLeaks was also recently dropped by its US servers and is now based out of Switzerland.
It was also recently dumped by online payment service PayPal.
WikiLeaks also battled technological attacks when a “hacktivist” shut down the website for 28 hours during last weekend.
Those responsible for the attack said in a statement on Twitter that the hack was revenge for WikiLeaks "attempting to endanger the lives of our troops, other assets & foreign relations”.
He said the US Justice Department had “a very serious, active, ongoing investigation that is criminal in nature” into the WikiLeaks saga.
Mr Assange sent a chilling threat to the US government saying if he was prosecuted or assassinated he would unlock a ‘poison pill’ - the entire archive of internal cables which have been downloaded in a secret document by more than “100,000 people”.
Since last Monday WikiLeaks have released just 1000 of the 251,287 cables .
Mr Assange has said he would appeal any charges stemming from the Swedish sexual assault claims.
“We will fight them and expose them, naturally,” he told Spain’s El Pais newspaper on Saturday.
“That there is something "wrong" with this case is now obvious to everyone.”
His lawyer Mark Stephens, of Stephens Finers Innocent, said he believed the Swedish claims were a “political stunt”.
Mr Stephens confirmed British police had telephoned him to notify him that they would serve the extradition request from Sweden.
He refused to confirm whether his client was in Britain, but said the meeting would take place somewhere in Britain.
"The arrangements I have been making are for him to come and meet the British police," Stephens said, without giving a date for the interview.
One British newspaper reported that Mr Assange would be expected to post bail of between 100,000 pounds and 200,000 pounds and would need up to six people offering surety.
But Mr Stephens said while he had been informed of the warrant, he knew nothing of a pending court appearance.
"I have not concluded any arrangements with the police at this time," he said.
The US Government was also yesterday increasing their efforts to prosecute Mr Assange for criminal activity over WikiLeaks’ release of 250,000 US diplomatic cables.
Despite being an Australian citizen, Mr Assange would still be put on trial in America, legal experts said.
US Attorney General Eric Holder said the Obama administration was considering using laws under the Espionage Act to prosecute Mr Assange over releasing information that threatened public safety. |
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发表于 2010-12-7 20:34
是不是他已经进了Denied Persons List了？
