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发帖数: 7521 | 1 卫报：维基解密创始人称强奸指控是诽谤
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“维基解密”创始人朱利安-阿桑奇的支持者已指责美国情报部门是阿桑奇遭强奸
指控事件的幕后黑手。他们表示，在阿桑奇在网上公布驻阿美军77000件战争文件后，
他们就预计美国情报部门会对阿桑奇采取诽谤行动。
朱利安-阿桑奇8月21日晚成为阴谋论的主角。检察官在此之前撤消了以阿桑奇涉嫌
强奸和猥亵为由发出的逮捕令。斯德哥尔摩检察官办公室的一位发言人20日证实，已签
发了对阿桑奇的逮捕令，呼吁阿桑奇“联络警方以便就涉嫌的罪行进行对质。”瑞典《
快报》称，39岁的阿桑奇涉嫌两起罪行，一名斯德哥尔摩女子指控阿桑奇对其实施了猥
亵。另一名来自斯德哥尔摩以西恩雪平的妇女则指控阿桑奇强奸了她。
阿桑奇声称，他是一场诽谤运动的受害者，他在“维基解密”网站的推特网页上否
认了强奸指控，称这些指控是毫无根据的，在此刻提出这些指控“令人深感不安”。
据信阿桑奇很熟悉那两名妇女。瑞典的消息人士称，她们一直不太愿意向警方报案
。但瑞典警察调查这一事件的消息被泄露给了《快报》，从而引发了外国势力启动诽谤
行动以抹黑阿桑奇的说法。
阿桑奇的朋友、英国调查新闻中心主任加文-麦克法蒂安称：“知道阿桑奇工作的
许多人在一周前就预料到这样的事情会发生。我对他们花了这么长的时间才把这些传闻
拼凑起来感到意外。这就是诽谤运作的方式，先是提出指控，随后再取消指控，但阿桑
奇的名誉已受损。”
Julian Assange: WikiLeaks founder hits out at rape smears
Julian Assange's supporters are quick to point the finger at American
intelligence agencies and say they were expecting slurs after he posted 77,
000 Afghanistan war documents online
Julian Assange, the secretive founder of WikiLeaks, the website behind
the biggest leak of US military documents in history, was the subject of
conspiracy theories last night after prosecutors withdrew a warrant for his
arrest in connection with rape and molestation allegations。
On Friday a spokeswoman for the Swedish prosecutors' office in Stockholm
confirmed an arrest warrant for Assange had been issued in absentia and
urged him to "contact police so that he can be confronted with the
suspicions"。
According to Expressen, a Swedish newspaper, the 39-year-old Australian
had been wanted in connection with two separate incidents. The first
involved a woman from Stockholm who reportedly accused him of "molestation".
The second involved a woman from Enk?ping, about an hour's drive west from
Stockholm, who had apparently accused Assange of rape. The warrant was
withdrawn yesterday afternoon。
Assange claimed he was the victim of a smear campaign. He denied the
charges on WikiLeaks's Twitter page, saying they were "without basis and
their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing"。
It is believed that Assange, who has no known address and spends much of
his time travelling to ensure a low profile, knew both women well. The pair
had been reluctant to go to the police with their complaints, according to
sources in Sweden. But the news that Swedish police were investigating the
affair was leaked to Expressen, prompting further claims that a smear
campaign had been orchestrated by foreign interests keen to discredit him。
Gavin MacFadyen, director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism,
and a friend of Assange, said: "A lot of us who had any notion of what he
was doing expected this sort of thing to happen at least a week ago. I'm
amazed it has taken them this long to get it together. This is how smears
work. The charges are made and then withdrawn and the damage is done."
WikiLeaks has courted controversy since July when it posted 77,000
Afghan War documents online, leading to claims it had put the lives of
troops and security sources at risk。
Assange had been in Sweden, home to some of WikiLeaks's internet servers
, to oversee the release of thousands more classified documents relating to
US military operations。
Last week he announced at a press conference in Stockholm that his
website was set to publish a final batch of 15,000 documents on the war in
Afghanistan in "a couple of weeks"。
"It seems an unusual time to embark on a career of multiple rape," said
Guardian journalist David Leigh, who has worked closely with Assange over
the recent WikiLeaks Afghanistan documents. "He certainly didn't come across
as a violent man, not in the least. Julian was clearly preparing to release
more sensitive documents."
There had been speculation that Assange's arrest would prompt WikiLeaks
to post a secret code that would decrypt a massive "insurance file" on its
site, the contents of which are the subject of frenzied speculation. The
file dwarfs the size of all the other files on the WikiLeaks Afghanistan
page combined, prompting claims that it contains a huge amount of top-secret
material. But sceptics believe the file is simply an elaborate bluff and
contains nothing revelatory。
Kristinn Hrafnsson, a colleague, of Assange's, said he had not known of
the charges "until he read them in the rightwing tabloid Expressen".
Hrafnsson said: "There are powerful organisations who want to do harm to
WikiLeaks."
Last week Assange claimed the Pentagon was ready to talk to WikiLeaks
about its unreleased documents. "We received contact through our lawyers
that the General Counsel [of the Pentagon] says now they want to discuss the
issue," he said。
A Pentagon spokesman said a phone call had been arranged with the
WikiLeaks lawyer but no conversation had taken place. He denied the Pentagon
was willing to co-operate with WikiLeaks. "These documents are property of
the United States government," he said. "The unauthorised release of them
threatens the lives of coalition forces as well as Afghan nationals."
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal claimed both the US Defence and
Justice departments were exploring legal options for prosecuting Assange and
others on grounds that they encouraged the theft of government property。
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