Re:Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation
by microtherion on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @09:59PM
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He was extradited from the UK, not from Sweden.
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Re:Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation
by pugwash on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:49AM
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He hasn't been extradited from anywhere to anywhere. He's still serving time in prison for jumping bail, and he will have a chance to argue against his extradition to the US early next year. If he does lose his extradition battle and does get sent to the US, he will have a further opportunity to defend himself against the crimes that he is accused of committing there.
In other words, the legal avenues that the moron could have availed himself of a decade ago are now open to him.
If anyone thinks that Assange was ever in danger of being extraordinarily renditioned to the US from Sweden then they need to consider that a decade ago he was high-profile enough for the Ecuadorians to stick their necks out for him.