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Re:Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation by allover on Friday May 19, 2017 @04:45PM (#14379211)
He is supposedly in fear of being extradited to the US and then stuck in a hole to rot. On paper Guantanamo is 'not how criminal investigations are done' either.
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Re:Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation by dragonwriter on Saturday May 20, 2017 @07:29PM (#14384926)
> He is supposedly in fear of being extradited to the US and then stuck in a hole to rot.

If the US wanted him from Britain for national security reasons (or political reasons masquerading as national security reasons), they wouldn't try to get him extradited to Sweden to do it; the US has closer security cooperation with the UK than Sweden.

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Re:Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation by allover on Sunday May 21, 2017 @05:40AM (#14386482)
You're overthinking it. Assange only has to be afraid of being arrested, for fear of being extradited somehow. The specifics of the UK/Sweden situation really don't matter.
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