Internet public enemy number one, Julian Assange was arrested today, after turning himself over to British police. But it wasn’t the Australian’s whistleblowing that brought him down–rather the WikiLeaks founder was arrested on charges of non-consensual sex filed by two women in Sweden over the summer.
According to London police, Assange is “accused by the Swedish authorities of one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape, all alleged to have been committed in August 2010.”
Assange had been in hiding since the recent release of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables. The 39-year-old one-time hacker has denied the charges, with his lawyers referring to the charges as “a political stunt.”
WikiLeaks, meanwhile, is maintaining business as usual. The site wrote on its Twitter page, “Today’s actions against our editor-in-chief Julian Assange won’t affect our operations: we will release more cables tonight as normal.”
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