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Re:Julian Assange and visitors were spied on by security fir... by lucozade on Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:52AM (#21592969)
He wasn't acquitted. The prosecution have chosen not to pursue the investigation because of the elapsed time.

And it was one rape allegation that they've stopped pursuing, not two. I don't believe there was a second one. The other allegation was for sexual molestation which passed the statute of limitations a while ago.

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Re:Julian Assange and visitors were spied on by security fir... by toyg on Thursday November 21, 2019 @06:28AM (#21593118)
The real news is that it has emerged Swedish authorities wanted to drop this years ago and were "dissuaded" by UK authorities. Now that US extradition is likely, and a competing claim by Sweden would put that at risk, they conveniently withdraw - what are the chance they were "persuaded" by someone else, again?

Sweden really did a number on Assange.

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Re:Julian Assange and visitors were spied on by security fir... by lucozade on Thursday November 21, 2019 @08:00AM (#21593585)
> and were "dissuaded" by UK authorities

Do you have a source for that?

> a competing claim by Sweden would put that at risk

The prosecutor tried but a court in Uppsala refused the detention request so the Yanks got in first.

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Re:Julian Assange and visitors were spied on by security fir... by toyg on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:14AM (#21594844)
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/11/sweden-tried-t...
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