Rundle: police procedures ignored in Assange interviews

A Swedish legal activist has told Crikey that police interviewing the two women accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of rape and sexual misconduct did not follow the recommended procedure for sex crime investigation. According to Göran Rudling, who has seen the police report of the first interviews, there is no full record of the first and most important interviews. “The police did what is known in Sweden as a ‘konceptforhor’, a summary of the interview,” Göran Rudling told Crikey today. “This is where the police simply make general notes on the statement being given. Since the interview was not recorded nothing of what the women actually said is recorded or registered. This makes it impossible after the fact to ascertain what’s actually been said.”