Assange denied residence on confidential reasons

MotorMachineMercenar writes: The Local (a Swedish newspaper in English) reports that Julian Assange has been denied residence permit in Sweden. Assange who is a founding member of Wikileaks and Australian citizen applied for residency in August, apparently to gain the freedom of speech protection offered by Swedish laws. When asked about the reasons for the denial, a Swedish official responsible replied, "...secrecy prevails in reference to the grounds for such a decision," essentially meaning the reasons are confidential. Assange has been recently under investigation for sexual molestation charges, which were withdrawn and then re-instated. Wikileaks is expected to release up to 400,000 confidential US military documents in the near future, which would be the largest such leak in US history.