Assange Denied Swedish Residence On Confidential Reasons

Posted by Soulskill on Monday October 18, 2010 @10:10AM from the bet-he'd-get-in-if-he-leaked-the-finns'-secrets dept.

MotorMachineMercenar writes "The Local reports that Julian Assange has been denied a residence permit in Sweden. The WikiLeaks spokesman and Australian citizen applied for residency in August, apparently to gain the freedom of speech protection offered by Swedish laws. When asked about the reasons for the denial, a Swedish official responsible replied, '...secrecy prevails in reference to the grounds for such a decision,' essentially meaning the reasons are confidential. Assange has been recently under investigation for sexual molestation charges, which were withdrawn and then re-instated. WikiLeaks is expected to release up to 400,000 confidential US military documents in the near future, which would be the largest such leak in US history."

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Re:Democracy and Responsibility by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-19 00:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Can we, at least, admit that the world is a better place without Saddam Hussein in power? Jeez, reading some of these comments you'd think the US invaded the Garden of Eden and double-tapped Adam and Eve.