A woman who accused the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sexual assault a decade ago has published details of the alleged attack for the first time in a tell-all book.
The charges of sexual assault made by Anna Ardin, previously known as Miss A, and another woman, known as Miss W, prompted Assange to hide in the Ecuadorean embassy in London in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden. He remained there for seven years and the charges were eventually dropped.
The move by Ardin to come forward to promote her book In the Shadow of Assange: My Testimony on a television chat show drew criticism from Anne Ramberg, former head of Sweden’s bar association, who has said that she is “extremely worried” by “the