The competent Swedish Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal by against the arrest warrant for the Australian Wikileaks spokesman Julian Assange rejected and confirmed the arrest warrant. In the published decision on Wednesday evening. The judges of the Appellate Court reduced the allegations of the arrest warrant on two harassment allegations and on suspicion of rape in minor cases. Now Assange Swedish lawyer Bjoern Hurtig, the action against the warrant before the Supreme Court will bring Sweden.

Only then could the international arrest warrant from Interpol issued. Wikileaks has meanwhile announced on U.S. secret documents to be published seven times, compared with about 400,000 use reports from the Iraq war, which were placed online in October. You are on 26 November in the Internet emerge and mainly consist of secret diplomatic documents. To many words to lay on the announcement is present: "In the coming months we will see a new world in which history is rewritten," Wikileaks announced via Twitter. The Wikileaks website is accessible again since yesterday evening. It was closed in the last few weeks, Wikileaks after his presence at the most secure Swedish provider PRQ had given up.

The announcement from Wikileaks is the U.S. media extensively discussed. Speculates the Wall Street Journal, the announced documents could exchange of diplomatic notes of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay contain the. The Journal also reports that the U.S. government warned foreign governments in advance, because there is concern that diplomatic relations with the publication of confidential diplomatic notes to various countries may be at risk. According to Philip Crowley, spokesman for the State Department could, announced secret documents "sensitive information of the daily business" and the "risk to human life." The blog of the magazine Wired , meanwhile, is speculation about whether the arrested soldier Bradley Manning really these documents may have had access to all or whether Wikileaks of "whistleblowers" will support others do not.