https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone...
Rectal feeding is of limited application in actually keeping a person alive or administering nutrients, since the colon and rectum cannot absorb much besides salt, glucose and a few minerals and vitamins. The CIA administered rectal rehydration to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed “without a determination of medical need” and justified “rectal fluid resuscitation” of Abu Zubaydah because he “partially refus[ed] liquids”. Al-Nashiri was given an enema after a brief hunger strike.
Risks of rectal feeding and rehydration include damage to the rectum and colon, triggering bowels to empty, food rotting inside the recipient’s digestive tract, and an inflamed or prolapsed rectum from carless insertion of the feeding tube. The report found that CIA leadership was notified that rectal exams may have been conducted with “Excessive force”, and that one of the detainees, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, suffered from an anal fissure, chronic hemorrhoids and symptomatic rectal prolapse.
The CIA’s chief of interrogations characterized rectal rehydration as a method of “total control” over detainees, and an unnamed person said the procedure helped to “clear a person’s head”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/09/cia-torture-...
"The CIA had force-fed some prisoners orally and/or anally in order to establish "total control over the detainee."^[47] The report notes that CIA documents indicate "Chief of Interrogations [redacted] also ordered the rectal rehydration of KSM without a determination of medical need, a procedure that the chief of interrogations would later characterize as illustrative of the interrogator's 'total control over the detainee.'"^[1]^:82 of 499"
"The Committee found that "[a]t least five CIA detainees were subjected to 'rectal rehydration' or rectal feeding without documented medical necessity."^[48] These detainees are listed as Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Shaykh Mohammad, Majid Khan, and Marwan al-Jabbur.^[1]^:114 of 499"
"At least one prisoner was "diagnosed with chronic hemorrhoids, an anal fissure and symptomatic rectal prolapse," symptoms normally associated with a violent rape.^[49] The report identified this detainee as Mustafa al-Hawsawi.^[1]^:100 of 499"
"CIA officials, including general counsel Scott Miller and deputy director of operations James Pavitt, were told that rectal exams of at least two prisoners had been conducted with "excessive force."^[49] A CIA attorney was asked to follow up on these incidents, but the report states that "CIA records do not indicate any resolution of the inquiry."^[1]^:100 of 499"
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_...
What are you talking about? Rape is forced sex. Lying to someone about who you are is not use of force.
[1]https://www.law.cornell.edu/women-and-justice/resource/assan...
According to the very article you link to his wearing of a condom was only an aggravating circumstance, and not the primary reason for the charge of rape.
The primary reason was that he had sex with the woman while she was asleep, in a helpless state (in which she could not give consent).
Here's the full quote:
"Mr. Assange visited Sweden to give a lecture. He had sexual relations with two women there. In the home of the injured party, Assange deliberately consummated sexual intercourse with her by improperly exploiting that she, due to sleep, was in a helpless state. It is an aggravating circumstance that Assange, who was aware that it was the expressed wish of the injured party and a prerequisite of sexual intercourse that a condom be used, still consummated unprotected sexual intercourse with her. The sexual act was designed to violate the injured party's sexual integrity. Mr. Assange was accused of rape. Allegedly, the women agreed to sex on the condition Mr. Assange wear a condom. He did not do so throughout intercourse. Although the English courts had previously ruled that one cannot give conditional consent, in order to be able to allow extradition to Sweden, the Supreme Court ruled that his actions would constitute a crime under English law - thus allowing conditional consent to become valid in English law."
And to describe even just the aggravating circumstance described here as merely "not wearing a condom" omits that the reason for it being a problem: because Assange knew the woman would not have sex without a condom.
So (if true) there are 2 reasons to think he was having sex without consent, which is rape.
> The primary reason was
Assange was not charged. Please stop spreading this falsehood.
Yes, you did.
No victims, nor officials, have accused him of any such thing. The arrest warrant that was issued was because he was wanted for questioning/investigation, and the direct statements of the women involved in the matter are very illuminating.
Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rape
The key point being "valid consent" and its contravention by deception. i.e. It's not valid if what you are consenting to is a lie, namely who you think you are having sex with.
The problem with that definition is that it doesn’t define what kinds of deception are sufficient to make sex qualify as rape.
Does any lie automatically turn sex into rape, or are there limits, e.g. only if you lie about working for the state?
Why for example would not disclosing that you are a cop be different from not disclosing that you are a doctor or an engineer?
This entire idea that merely lying about who you before sex are constitutes rape is simply not true.
Certain deceptions may be crimes, but that is completely different.
If you have sex with someone because you think you're in love with them and they're in love with you, but in fact they're not who you thought they were but they're just putting on an act, don't love you, and are using you then it's most definitely rape because you haven't given consent to have sex with someone you don't actually know and who's deceiving you in the most despicable way.
What turns it into villainy is the explicit intent to deceive for nefarious purposes, but calling it rape feels like a serious dilution of the word