AAP General News (Australia)
12-07-2010
FED:Possible Assange meeting with police=2
Ms Robinson said Mr Assange had stayed in Sweden for more than 40 days to answer the
allegations, received permission from the Swedish prosecutor to leave the country and
had made numerous attempts to cooperate with investigators since.
"All of those have been refused," she said.
"Instead of even seeking a formal summons for his interrogation, (the prosecutor) has
gone direct for an arrest warrant, so we absolutely think it is disproportionate."
Mr Assange still had not seen an English version of the full allegations against him
or the potential charges he faced, a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights,
Ms Robinson said.
His legal team was urgently seeking copies of the latest arrest warrant, which so far
had not been forthcoming.
"We know that there was an earlier arrest warrant ... that was rejected on the grounds
of administrative error," Ms Robinson said.
"We are still seeking confirmation of that error.
"Even today now we know that an arrest warrant has been communicated and has been validated
by the UK authorities, we have been denied access to that arrest warrant."
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