UK, not Sweden, behind efforts to keep Assange in jail: report

Ah right, it's the English who are making a mockery of justice while holding Assange for lack of condom.

From Raw Story.


Assange's lawyers say they were lied to on effort to prevent bail

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British prosecutors, rather than Swedish officials, are behind the effort to keep WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from being granted bail, the Guardian reports.

Assange was granted bail by a London judge on Tuesday, but remained in custody reportedly because of plans by Swedish prosecutors to appeal the decision.

"But today the Swedish prosecutor's office told the Guardian it had 'not got a view at all on bail' and that Britain had made the decision to oppose bail," the newspaper reported.

"The decision was made by the British prosecutor," Swedish prosecution service spokeswoman Karin Rosander said. "I got it confirmed by the CPS this morning that the decision to appeal the granting of bail was entirely a matter for the CPS. The Swedish prosecutors are not entitled to make decisions within Britain. It is entirely up to the British authorities to handle it."

Assange's lawyers "reacted with shock" the news, the Guardian reports, saying they had been informed by prosecutors it was Sweden who had insisted on the appeal.

British prosecutors will reportedly request that Assange be kept in jail until his extradition hearing is complete.

According to his lawyer, Mark Stephens, Assange is being held in solitary confinement for 23-1/2 hours per day.

"He is in isolation. He doesn't have access to newspapers or television or other news devices. He is not getting mail, he is subject to the pettiest forms of censorship," Stephens said.

"Rassenschande" In Israel; Arab Jailed After Having Sex With Jewish Woman

He didn't warn her first that he wasn't jewish, so now he lands in jail. What a racist disgrace Israel has seemingly become. In Nazi germany having sex with a Jew was "rassenschande" or "race-defilement" and a criminal offence. Today in Israel do Jews seemingly have a similar attitude but now for Arabs?

From Mail Online.

A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape ‘by deception’ after having consensual sex with a woman who had believed him to be a fellow Jew.
Sabbar Kashur, 30, who had introduced himself as Daniel, was only charged with the offence when she later realised he was an Arab.
A court in Jerusalem made international legal history by jailing the delivery driver for 18 months despite acknowledging it had not been ‘a ‘a classical rape by force’...

Bush Pick For Homeland Security Chief Gets Four Years In Jail

says it all...

here's an article on ABC.