Wikileaks hits out

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is due back in a UK court this afternoon to make a fresh appeal for bail while he fights extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault.

Speaking from Wandsworth prison, via his mother Christine, he said that his arrest had only made him more determined.
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Wikileaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson said: “There is every indication that this is because of the pressure from the US government on the financial companies to stop processing the cards to us for example. So it’s a very serious thing which we will respond to with strong legal means.”

Following their refusal to process Wikileaks payments, Assange said that Visa, Mastercard and Paypal were “instruments of foreign policy” and called on the world to “protect his work” from what he described as “illegal and immoral attacks”.

In Sweden the statutory definition of rape is very broad, and Assange denies the accusations against him, saying they stem from a dispute about consensual but unprotected sex.

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