"This week, the Swedish Court of Appeal will decide whether to order Ny to hand over the SMS messages, or the matter will go to the Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice. In high farce, Assange's Swedish lawyers have been allowed only to "review" the SMS messages, which they had to memorize.
One of the women's messages makes clear that she did not want any charges brought against Assange, "but the police were keen on getting a hold on him." She was "shocked" when they arrested him because she only "wanted him to take [an HIV] test." She "did not want to accuse JA of anything" and "it was the police who made up the charges." (In a witness statement, she is quoted as saying that she had been "railroaded by police and others around her.")
Neither woman claimed she had been raped. Indeed, both have denied they were raped and one of them has since tweeted, "I have not been raped." That they were manipulated by police and their wishes ignored is evident - whatever their lawyers might say now. Certainly, they are victims of a saga worthy of Kafka."
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