Sweden is re-writing the law to prosecute Assange

[ninboydean]

Both women admit to consenting to sex with Assange, and they both boasted about the fact - one even holding a party. There was no violence. This is corroborated by the prosecutors handling the case. And the law, itself, is being re-written with the sole intent of convicting, and in effect neutralizing Assange:

"Proposed reforms of Swedish rape laws

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[underlankers]

Naturally. The US government thinks it's helping the Empire with this when it really isn't. The more intelligent response would be to ignore Assange and handle everything in the metaphorical smoke-filled room and use corporate media to drown him out, not give him free publicity. Fortunately nobody in either government or corporate media is that intelligent.

[mijopo]

Information on this case is frustratingly hard to find. It's hard not to suspect that this is some kind of attempt to quiet him. However, I've seen other accounts that alleged that the women asked him to stop when a condom broke and/or that he even insisted on sex without a condom despite objections. If true, those do seem like situations of rape.

From the article:
"Consensual sex that started out with a condom ended up without one, ergo, the sex was not consensual."

This doesn't seem so implausible to me. A condom breaks, comes off, the woman says, "stop". He insists on continuing. That can still be rape, no?

(Note that the linked article is written by his attorney or former attorney)

[ninboydean]

But at what point did the women voice objection to the relations? My understanding is that both were bragging about the act afterwards.

[mijopo]

I read that too, but only from this account or repetitions of it, so I'm not sure.