From Cambodia, via Thailand under escort of Swedish police who forced him to board the plane to Stockholm on September 2nd. Adding this case to that of Julian Assange, Sweden, once a haven for liberties, ratifies itself as a police state against freedom of speech: freedom of sharing data, knowledge.
From Asia Times Online:
Cambodia helps squeeze
WikiLeaks
By Justine Drennan
PHNOM PENH - Earlier this week, Swedish
national Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was deported from
Cambodia to Thailand under the escort of Swedish
officials who then forced him to board a plane to
Sweden.
From his arrest in Phnom Penh two
weeks ago up until Tuesday, Cambodian and Swedish
authorities remained tight-lipped, saying only
that Svartholm Warg was arrested for copyright
infringement as a co-founder of major online
file-sharing site, Pirate Bay.
Soon after
Svartholm Warg arrived in Sweden, it became clear
to his associates that he had been brought home
for reasons beyond his one-year prison sentence
and multi-million dollar fine for Pirate Bay's
activities and that he could face charges related to his association with
whistleblower website WikiLeaks. He was also
charged on arrival with hacking tax records.
(...)
But Femerstrand
and Sunde's bigger fear is that Svartholm Warg
will be charged as part of a wider international
crackdown on WikiLeaks, Femerstrand said.
Svartholm Warg at one point allegedly helped host
the WikiLeaks site so that its files could be
accessible on the web. Svartholm Warg is also
rumored to be personally associated with Julian
Assange, founder and promoter of WikiLeaks.
(...)
