Assange is continuing battle against extradition

His defense accused the Swedish justice before partisanship. But the other side hung up. Assange was last summer after learning of the rape allegations against him literally fled from Sweden, he was not even accessible from his lawyer.

"When Mr Assange is obviously a risk of absconding and it can not be regarded as an overreaction that it be set," said Clare Montgomery, a British attorney who represents the interests of the Swedish judiciary in the extradition proceedings. A former Swedish chief prosecutor Sven-Erik Alhem said:. "I arrested him when he was in Sweden would" Since Assange but in the meantime had traveled to Britain, had taken an EU-wide arrest warrant first interrogation should be tried as by video link .

The Gothenburg prosecutor accuses Marianne Ny Assange, in Stockholm in August, two women molested and raped one of them to have. This concerns specifically the question of whether Assange has prevailed against the wishes of women and violence, that the fundamentally consensual sex was unprotected. The Assange camp accuses the prosecutor on its part not to be unbiased. They had "lost its balance" a troubled relationship with men and another Swedish lawyer said on Monday.

A court's decision on extradition still on Tuesday was considered unlikely. It is expected that the Belmarsh Magistrates Court to render its award announced until a few days. Whatever the outcome is already expected that the losing side lodges an appeal, so that could drag the final decision for weeks or even months.

Assange is represented in the process of a whole staff of lawyers from Britain, Australia and Sweden. His Swedish lawyer Bjoern Hurtig presented to the court a written statement on Tuesday. He had never seen in his legal career, hardly a charge that stands on weak legs, it says. It is evident that the two women who each spent as a victim of Assange have something out in the shield.

The argument put forward by the Assange defense fears that their client could in cases of extradition to Sweden later moved to the United States continues where it was threatened with prison camps and the death penalty, held on Tuesday, even the Swedish ex-prosecutor Alhem - summoned by the defense - for covered. "As far as I understand it, there is no such risk. But there are concerns that are not aware and I can not comment, "he said.

The defense strategy of Assange aims mainly to the fact that Sweden is so far no charges against Assange, but only a preliminary investigation. not only for the purpose of an extradition hearing was accused relatively, the argument goes. Instead, the trial could take place in the UK, such as the Swedish Embassy or by video link.