Swedish rape activists slam UN on Assange
Published: 05 Feb 2016 11:40 GMT+01:00
Updated: 05 Feb 2016 16:12 GMT+01:00
... “Evidently the UN thinks that the justice of the women who have been assaulted and raped is less important than the right of a possible offender to walk freely in the streets,” Clara Berglund, General Secretary of the Swedish Women’s Lobby, told The Local.
"We are really angry here at Roks," said Zozan Inci, the chairperson of Roks, a lobby group representing shelters for women affected by male violence. "There is a girl in Sweden who’s been <allegedly> raped. He needs to come here and go through the process that everyone else goes through" ...
"That a man who is wanted on an arrest warrant for rape should be awarded compensation for intentionally hiding from the judicial system for more than five years is offensive to my client and to the human rights of all victims of crime," <Elizabeth Fritz, the lawyer for the woman who has accused Assange of rape> said in a statement ...
http://www.thelocal.se/20160205/swedish-womens-group-slams-un-on-assange
