Tag: Sweden
Breaking News: WikiLeaks Founder Accused of Rape
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Posted to Media on Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 10:57:25 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The controversial founder of WikiLeaks, a website that publishes formerly secret government documents, has been charged by Swedish authorities with rape and molestation. Julian Assange was "arrested in absentia" for the case, which supposedly spans two instances. So far the only details are coming from bad translations of Swedish tabloids, which suggest two accusers.
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It's Pop
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Posted to Etcetera on Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 05:34:16 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
It has recently come to light that a Swedish couple has, for the last two years, been raising their first child (referred to by the pseudonym "Pop" in the press coverage) without revealing its gender. While the child's parents obviously know, as well as a select few caregivers, the parents refuse to reveal the child's gender identity to friends, and have taken to dressing the child in clothes appropriate to both boys and girls, refer to it in gender neutral ways, and generally have attempted to let the child pick its own identity.
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