The Australian born founder and CEO of the controversial internet site “WikiLeaks”who leaks us military documents throughout the world , Julian Assange, turned himself into the British police yesterday over allegations of supposed sex crimes he committed during the month of August in Sweden. Julian Assange has been under fire lately for the enormous amount of data his website released and continues to release into the public domain and the highly classified documents that were contained therein, however it is said that this new development and Assange’s arrest are completely unrelated to the WikiLeaks controversy.It is unclear if Mr. Assange will fight extradition to Sweden but according to the British Police statement Julian Assange is “accused by the Swedish Authorities of one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation, and one count of rape”. It was also announced by District Judge Howard Riddle, the judge hearing the sex crimes allegations that Mr. Assange would be denied bail and be remanded in custody by the British court because there is apparently the risk that he would fail to surrender. There is still some speculation as to the nature of the charges, but it seems that Assange is being charged with sex crimes against two different women, in both cases two of the charges are based upon allegations that Assange was not wearing a condom during sex when he was asked to by the women. These allegations provide the grounds for both sexual molestation charges by both women against Mr. Assange who, through his lawyers, continues to deny all of the charges against him.
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