Julian Assange - Wikileaks

Assange denied Swedish residence and work permit.

Wikileaks grundare Julian Assange får inte uppehålls- och arbetstillstånd i Sverige.
Det uppger Gunilla Wikström på Migrationsverket.
– Vi fattade beslutet att avslå hans ansökan. Han har fått besked i dag på mail, säger hon till Aftonbladet
Frontfiguren för den uppmärksammade sajten Wikileaks, australiern Julian Assange, ansökte tidigare i år om uppehållstillstånd i Sverige.

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Swedish to English translation
Wikileaks founders Julian Assange may not be a residence and work permit in Sweden.
It says Gunilla Wikström at the Board.
- We took the decision to reject his application. He has received notice today in mail, "she told Aftonbladet
Frontman for the acclaimed website Wikileaks, Australian Julian Assange, filed earlier this year for a residence permit in Sweden.
One of the reasons as stated is that Assange planning to have a Swedish utgivarbevis, which would give him better protection of sources for the site.
Today, however, decided the Migration Board decides not to give Assange a residence permit, but do not want to go into details of the case.
Notified of rape
Assange visited Sweden last summer to lecture on Wikileaks recent publication of thousands of secret documents from the war in Afghanistan. He then applied also for a Swedish residence permit.
But the lectures were overshadowed once the media reporting a rape complaint against Julian Assange. The notification was the start of a long circus that reported in the world and still not completed.
The request was lifted
An on-call prosecutor asked originally Assange in his absence, the suspect in a rape and a case of sexual molestation. The request was lifted up by an ordinary prosecutor after just one day.
When the prosecutor Eva Finné examined the case, she decided to close enrollment on the rape and only initiate investigations in a case of molestation.
Later, however, decided the prosecutor Marianne New to the preliminary investigation of rape should be resumed. Moreover, as the case classified as harassment redefined as sexual coercion and sexual assault.
Basics secret
The investigation is still ongoing and now has the Migration Board rejected his application, said Gunilla Wikstrom who are decision makers at the Migration Board's work unit in Norrköping.
- There is not much more to say more than that we rejected his application.
Can you say anything about the grounds for refusal?
- No, there is secrecy around the grounds for such a decision.
According to Gunilla Wikstrom has Assange decision has been sent both by mail and by regular mail. She can not answer whether he is in the country.
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