New York, Dec. 19: After he leaked hundreds of thousands of secret US diplomatic cables, Mr Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blower website Wikileaks, is getting it back with the leak of a 68-page confidential Swedish police report that sheds new light on the alleged sexual misconduct by the Australian.
The Swedish report traces events over a four-day period in August this year when Mr Assange, 39, had what he has described as consensual sexual relationships with two Swedish women.
Their accounts, which form the basis of an extradition case against Assange, state that their encounters with him began consensually, but became non-consensual when he persisted in having unprotected sex with them in defiance of their insistence that he use a condom, New York Times reports.
The Times, which obtained a redacted form of the report in Swedish, says it is a preliminary summary of the evidence taken by investigators in August after their initial interviews with the two women and with Mr Assange. The Swedish document traces the accounts given by the two women of their intimate encounters with Mr Assange.
Both women say Mr Assange first agreed to use a condom and then refused, in the first instance by continuing with sex after the condom broke, and in the second by having sex without using a condom with a woman who was asleep, The Times reports. Mr Assange has declined to publicly address the women’s accounts directly, both before his December 7 arrest on the Swedish extradition warrant and since he was released from a London jail on Thursday.