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0 pointsrmc10y ago0 comments

> If Sweden says they won't send him to the USA then he will walk out today.

Can the US President give a guarantee that the Supreme Court will decide a case in a certain manner? Because that's what that means.

Sweden is a country with laws, and an independent judiciary. Sweden has extradition treaty with the US (as do many people). If the USA follows a procedure, then the Swedish courts must hand someone over (and vice versa). That's what the (Swedish) law says. You're asking the Swedish government to guarantee that the Swedish courts won't decide a particular case in a particular manner.

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Tepix10y ago· 1 in thread

Every government can deny an extradition for political or human rights reasons.

krotton10y ago

And it would be an absurd and a clear indication of lack of any kind of independence if they could not.

jellicle10y ago· 1 in thread

Extradition is a political process, not a judicial one. It is the U.S. Department of State that decides who gets extradited from the U.S.A., for example. If they want you extradited you're gone, if they don't you aren't.

In Sweden it's the Government (prime minister, effectively) that decides, not any court.

The idea that there's some sort of independent, non-partisan process for extraditions is completely, totally false. It is entirely political.

dagw10y ago

In Sweden it's the Government (prime minister, effectively) that decides, not any court.

Only in one direction. If the Supreme Court blocks an extradition as illegal under Swedish law then the Government cannot overrule that judgement (though I suppose they could change the law and ask the country to refile the extradition request). They can however refuse to extradite someone even if the courts rule the extradition legal.

danieltillett10y ago

>You're asking the Swedish government to guarantee that the Swedish courts won't decide a particular case in a particular manner.

I am not asking for anything, but as others have pointed out it is totally within the Swedish governments prerogative to deny the extradition of Assange to the USA. If they were truly interested in the Swedish case they wanted to question him about they would have come out and said this long ago.

If Julian has committed a crime in Sweden then let him be tried and sentenced in Sweden, but when the USA treats people like Chelsea Manning was/is treated then I think Julian has a point.

As an Australian I am most disappointed in how the Australian government has failed Julian. They should be pushing for a resolution of the whole situation yet they have basically washed their hands of him. No matter what he has done he is still an Australian in trouble overseas and the Australian government should be helping.

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