“Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.”

— Julian Assange

Accuser snapped me in the nude, The Sunday Times, December 26, 2010, 2010-12-28 http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/People/article490823.ece,

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