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0 pointsbboygravity1y ago0 comments

I don't think law, justice or even diplomacy are very relevant for most of this case.

1900 days in isolation (human rights violation), falsly accused of rape with the goal to extradite to the US, jailed outside of the US on behalf of the US (but not officially), and just the simple fact that a journalist gets jail time for exposing war crimes.

Yeah, this has nothing to do with law or justice. This is about a handful of people above the law trying to save their *sses. Anything could happen at this point.

Reminds me of when a foreign diplomatic aircraft (Equador) was forced to land in a foreign country (France), because the US thought Snowden might be on board. Remind me of the relevant law that allows for this please? lol

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pelorat1y ago

He's not a journalist, he is bought and paid for by FSB and the Russian regime.

bboygravityOP1y ago

I don't buy that for a second.

Example: Gerhard Schröder was also very obviously bought by Russians. He never went to jail nor was he hunted down.

Assange also did publish actual literal war crimes committed by the US. Not sure how you can just casually ignore that fact?

There's more to this.

Applejinx1y ago

This. My hope is he had valuable information to give up about his former operators that was worth the plea deal, which is very possible as he's far from the only one.

Let an old spy go off and retire, he can't work anymore anyhow.

youngtaff1y ago

> falsly accused of rape with the goal to extradite to the US,

Where’s the evidence that he was falsely accused?

mandmandam1y ago

The accusers withdrew their testimony, Swedish prosecutors were caught falsifying and destroying documents, and the case was withdrawn due to lack of evidence.

I'd say that you could have found all this out yourself with Google, but you didn't even need to. All this info has already been linked in these comments.

youngtaff1y ago

You know accusers in sexual assault allegations often withdraw their testimony due to the pressures of the case – especially in this case where the women were threatened, smeared and accused of being honeypots etc?

Most of the links in these comments aren't authoritative in anyway

tuna741y ago

The above statements are false. The case was withdrawn due to the time it took to get to trial, then the charges are dropped (statue of limitations).

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sofixa1y ago

> 1900 days in isolation (human rights violation)

Call it what it is, torture.

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pelorat1y ago

He's not a journalist, he is bought and paid for by FSB and the Russian regime.

bboygravityOP1y ago

I don't buy that for a second.

Example: Gerhard Schröder was also very obviously bought by Russians. He never went to jail nor was he hunted down.

Assange also did publish actual literal war crimes committed by the US. Not sure how you can just casually ignore that fact?

There's more to this.

Applejinx1y ago

This. My hope is he had valuable information to give up about his former operators that was worth the plea deal, which is very possible as he's far from the only one.

Let an old spy go off and retire, he can't work anymore anyhow.

youngtaff1y ago

> falsly accused of rape with the goal to extradite to the US,

Where’s the evidence that he was falsely accused?

mandmandam1y ago

The accusers withdrew their testimony, Swedish prosecutors were caught falsifying and destroying documents, and the case was withdrawn due to lack of evidence.

I'd say that you could have found all this out yourself with Google, but you didn't even need to. All this info has already been linked in these comments.

youngtaff1y ago

Most of the links in these comments aren't authoritative in anyway

tuna741y ago

The above statements are false. The case was withdrawn due to the time it took to get to trial, then the charges are dropped (statue of limitations).

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sofixa1y ago

> 1900 days in isolation (human rights violation)

Call it what it is, torture.

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