Re:Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
by dullgiulio on Friday May 19, 2017 @07:19AM
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Just to be clear, it's two Egypitians being transferred to Egypt. Assange is not American.
The case you quote is obviously a violation of International Law, but it doesn't make me more suspicious for the fate of Assange in Sweden.
Re:Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
by vidarh on Friday May 19, 2017 @07:33AM
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It's two egyptians asylum seekers being illegal black-bagged and handed to a foreign power who turned around and handed them to the country they were fleeing.
It was not just a violation of international law, but a violation of Swedish law which the relevant police officers were not punished for.
So it is an indication that Swedish police can illegally pick people off the streets of Sweden, treat them in a way that is blatantly illegal, illegally hand them off to a foreign power, and not be charged with anything.
Maybe that is not enough to make you more suspicious, but the question is whether or not it gave Assange more reason to be concerned.
Swedish officials handed over al-Zari and another Egyptian, Ahmed Agiza, to CIA operatives on December 18, 2001 for transfer from Stockholm to Cairo. Both men were asylum seekers in Sweden, and suspected of terrorist activities in Egypt, where torture of such suspects is commonplace. (...) Despite post-return monitoring by Swedish diplomats, both men were tortured in Egypt.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-...