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==Allegations of sexual assault==

{{See also|Swedish Judicial Authority v. Julian Assange}}

On 20 August 2010, [[Swedish police]] began an investigation into sexual encounters involving Assange.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-sweden| author=Nick Davies| title=10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against Julian Assange| publisher=The Guardian| date=December 17, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| author = TNN|url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Sex-accusers-boasted-about-their-conquest-of-WikiLeaks-founder-Julian-Assange/articleshow/7068149.cms|title = Sex accusers boasted about their 'conquest' of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange|publisher = The Times of India|work = Timesofindia.indiatimes.com|date = 21 August 2010|accessdate = 10 December 2010 }}</ref> Assange has said the allegations of wrongdoing are "without basis",<ref name=basis>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316|title=Swedish rape warrant for Wikileaks' Assange cancelled|publisher=BBC}}</ref> describing the sexual encounters as consensual.<ref>{{cite news|url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/31/wikileaks-julian-assange-questioned|title = WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange questioned by police|newspaper = The Guardian|date = 31 August 2010}}</ref><ref name="GuardCharges">{{cite web|author = David Leigh, Luke Harding, Afua Hirsch and Ewen MacAskill|url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/nov/30/interpol-wanted-notice-julian-assange|title = WikiLeaks: Interpol issues wanted notice for Julian Assange|publisher = The Guardian|accessdate = 1 December 2010}}</ref> His two accusers charge that some of the sex acts became non-consensualabusive whenafter Assangesex misusedwhich orwas didinitially not use a condomconsensual.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-sweden| author=Nick Davies| title=10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against Julian Assange| publisher=The Guardian| date=December 17, 2010}}</ref> In December, Assange, now in Britain, learned that the Swedish authorities had issued a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) for his extradition to Sweden. Assange appealed the EAW, and a District Judge (Magistrates Court) in England [[Swedish Judicial Authority v. Julian Assange|ruled]] that Assange should be extradited. Assange has appealed the extradition decision.<ref name=Australian>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/julian-assange-faces-extradition-to-sweden-will-appeal-judgement/story-fn775xjq-1226011650037</ref><ref name="blasting">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12564865 |title=Wikileaks' Julian Assange to be extradited to Sweden|publisher=The BBC|date=24 February 2011|accessdate=24 February 2011}}</ref><ref name="judiciary">{{cite web|url=http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/jud-aut-sweden-v-assange-judgment.pdf|title=The judicial authority in Sweden-v-Julian Paul Assange - Findings of facts and reasons|publisher=judiciary.gov.uk|date=24 February 2011|accessdate=24 February 2011}}</ref>

On March 10, 2011 newspaper [[Expressen]] reported that the lead [[interrogator]] during the first interview, already was acquainted (since april 2009) with the one of the accusers.<ref>http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/avslojar/1.2360369/polisen-van-med-kvinna-som-anmalde-assange </ref>