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0 pointsKristine197510y ago0 comments

Lets assume Sweden drops the rape case against him. Then he would certainly be extradited to the USA.

He spent weeks in UK before going to the Ecuadorian Embassy. Why didn't the UK extradit him to the US?

Afaik the rape accusations in Sweden boil down to "he had sex with a woman w/o using a condom",

...while said woman was sleeping, and when the evening before she had categorically refused to have sex without a condom, AFAIK.

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Cyph0n10y ago· 1 in thread

Great, but it's still just an accusation. If the UK is willing to spend millions to get Assange back to Sweden so he can be questioned about an accusation... I mean, come on, isn't that a bit too much? There's surely something else going on here the way I see it.

ascorbic10y ago

That's how the criminal justice system works. How would you prefer it were done? He was tried in absentia, and only arrested in convicted?

vidarh10y ago

The UK has a well established history of actually having a judiciary that is willing to stand up against US extradition requests and make it possible to drag them out for years.

Sweden, meanwhile, has a history of black bagging political asylum seekers and illegally handing them over to the CIA.

If I was Assange, I know where I would take my chances.

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