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The pursuit of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appears to have "political motivations," his lawyer, Mark Stephens, told the BBC Sunday. "I'm really rather worried by the political motivations that appear to be behind this," Stephens said during an interview. His comments came after Swedish prosecutors issued an international arrest warrant for Assange - the elusive boss of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks - on sex assault allegations, according to AFP. Assange, who is reported to be somewhere in southern England, broke cover Friday to say in an online chat that he had boosted security after re-ceiving death threats amid the storm that was unleashed by his site's decision to publish 250,000 US diplomatic cables, AFP reported. Australian police are investigating whether Assange has broken any of the country's laws and is liable to be prosecuted there, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said Saturday, according to Reuters. If Assange has broken any Australian laws, his case will be referred to the public prosecutor, Rudd added. WikiLeaks faced a fresh threat to its survival Saturday as the US-based online payment service PayPal cut off the account used for donations to the whistle-blowing website, according to AFP. In a message on its Twitter feed, WikiLeaks blamed "US government pressure" for the PayPal ban. The website has switched its domain to Switzerland because its original Web address was shut down by a US provider, AFP reported. Agencies |
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