Swedish newspapers are reporting that Julian Assange has been accused of rape by two different women, and that Swedish police has issued "an arrest in his absence."
Assange was in Sweden on Wikileaks related business, his whereabouts now are not known.
UPDATE: ACCORDING TO MOST RECENT REPORTS, THE SWEDISH PROSECUTOR IS DROPPING CHARGES AGAINST ASSANGE. CHIEF PROSECUTOR EVA FINNE WITHDRAWS THE ORDER OF ARREST.
ASSANGE ADAMANTLY DENIES ANY CHARGES.
SVENSKA DAGBLADET - LEADING DAILY - STATES ASSANGE NO LONGER UNDER SUSPICION OF RAPE.
GOOGLE TRANSLATE LINK: http://translate.google.com/...
The Swedish newspaper Expressen, as well as other media, have tried to reach Assange through Wikileaks, without success.
Assange held a lecture in Stockholm for the Swedish Brotherhood movement (Broderskapsrörelsen), and also met with Rikard Falkvinge, the leader of the Swedish digital rights Pirate Party. Falkvinge met with Assange after the alleged rapes are said to have occured, and says that Assange gave no indication that anything was wrong.
Swedish police state Assange met the women during activities related to his business in Sweden.
The two women are between 20 and 30 years of age, and he met them on separate occasions in Stockholm and Enköping, last Saturday/Sunday and on Tuesday of this week.
http://www.expressen.se/...
Here's a Google-Translate link. Note that the translation says "arrested" - the Swedish police have "arrested Assange in his absence," but are noe holding him in custody:
http://translate.google.com/...
Same news reported in Svenska Dagbladet:
http://translate.google.com/...