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Re:WikiLeaks plans to release documents on US election and G... by dragonwriter on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @02:18PM (#12637874)
> I have a lot of problems with Assange but his concern is plausible. The U.S. and Sweden have an extradition treaty and the U.S. likely wants to prosecute him for his collaboration with Manning on her exfiltration of classified materials.

The U.S. and the U.K. also have an extradition treaty, so the existence of a U.S.-Sweden extradition treaty doesn't really do much to enhance the plausibility of a double-extradition plot where Sweden extradites him from the U.K. on rape charges only as a ruse to get him into Sweden where he can be extradited to the U.S. on some other charges. (If the U.K. was a country that had no extradition treaty with the U.S. and was particularly resistant to U.S. extradition, then a double-extradition plot might be plausible.)

Re:WikiLeaks plans to release documents on US election and G... by extra88 on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @03:25PM (#12638546)
Assange is not in the U.K., he's in Ecuador. Specifically, the Ecuadoran embassy in London.

Now the U.S. and Ecuador also have a treaty but I don't read lawyer well enough, especially not old-timey lawyer, to know whether it would apply to anything Assange might be charged with. It does say it "shall not be applicable to crimes or offences of a political character" and I'm sure that's how Assange would characterize it (and I think that's at least partially why Ecuador has been housing him).

But the U.S. hasn't charged him with anything so there's nothing for Ecuador to extradite him for yet. In any case, the claim is a nice excuse to avoid jail in Sweden.

Re:WikiLeaks plans to release documents on US election and G... by Tomte on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @03:48PM (#12638768)
> Assange is not in the U.K., he's in Ecuador.

No, he isn't. Contrary to the ever-lasting myth, embassies have no extraterritorial status whatsoever. They are in and are a part of the host country.

But they have special protections under the Vienna Convention.

Re:WikiLeaks plans to release documents on US election and G... by extra88 on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @03:55PM (#12638842)
That's interesting, TIL. Nevertheless, being in their embassy seems to have an effect on what U.K. authorities are willing to do.