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Re:Swedish court upholds Assange arrest warrant by DanBC on Friday September 16, 2016 @07:49AM (#12513347)
> The problem is that Sweden and the UK are complicit

The UK isn't that complicit, because he's been here for a while and the UK has done fuck all.

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Re:Swedish court upholds Assange arrest warrant by pessimizer on Friday September 16, 2016 @08:02AM (#12513393)
Since when has "fuck all" cost £10m?

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31159594

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Re:Swedish court upholds Assange arrest warrant by DanBC on Friday September 16, 2016 @09:12AM (#12513709)
You prove my point. They spent £10m and he's still here.

If they really wanted him in the US they'd have spent a tenth of that and had him renditioned.

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Re:Swedish court upholds Assange arrest warrant by onion2k on Friday September 16, 2016 @08:02AM (#12513396)
Legally an embassy is a tiny parcel of sovereign land that belongs to the country it's an embassy of, so strictly speaking, he's in Ecuador.
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Re:Swedish court upholds Assange arrest warrant by hamax on Friday September 16, 2016 @08:11AM (#12513440)
This is not true.
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Re:Swedish court upholds Assange arrest warrant by pessimizer on Friday September 16, 2016 @08:14AM (#12513458)
It isn't true because there's no such thing as international law, but it is true because it's a norm.
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