Re:Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
by efraim on Friday May 19, 2017 @09:47AM
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Did you read your link? Ecuador was the one that shut him out and the questions were asked by a prosecutor from Ecuador.
>The questions were prepared by prosecutors in Sweden, where an arrest warrant for Mr. Assange was issued in 2010, but were posed by a prosecutor from Ecuador under an agreement the two countries made in August.
>βFor some reason that I am not aware of, I am not on the list of approved persons that Ecuador has established,β Mr. Samuelsson told Radio Sweden.
Re:Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
by nailer on Friday May 19, 2017 @11:02AM
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Amended.
Re:Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
by efraim on Friday May 19, 2017 @11:54AM
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The Swedish prosecutor has said that they hoped to get a sample of Assange's DNA during the interview, but since it was carried out by a prosecutor from Ecuador that seems unlikely and I haven't seen anything about them getting it.
You're right. The Swedish prosecutor and police were present but indeed the questions were posed on their behalf.
> On Monday morning, a Swedish deputy chief prosecutor, Ingrid Isgren, and a police inspector, Cecilia Redell, arrived at the Ecuadorean Embassy, in the Knightsbridge section of West London, as journalists gathered outside.
I don't think this means that Sweden didn't get the chance to ask question though - and if there were any they were prevented from asking, I'm sure they would have stated this in the aftermath.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/world/europe/assange-wiki...