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Re:Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeak... by dragonwriter on Friday April 05, 2019 @04:02AM (#19580643)
Its not a penal sentence, no; insofar as it is a pinishment it is a punishment for an ongoing offense, and continues as long as the offense continues.

And, blackmail is threatening to reveal a secret to get someone to comply, so, no, it's not that.

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Re:Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeak... by coldtea on Friday April 05, 2019 @04:07AM (#19580660)
Yeah, those insignificant pedantic reasons make it not a punishment and not blackmail /s
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Re:Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeak... by dragonwriter on Friday April 05, 2019 @04:13AM (#19580688)
I didn't say it's not a punishment.

But it's far closer to extortion than blackmail.

But that's true of compulsory legal process generally, not a special feature of confinement for contempt.

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