UK threaten to enter Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian Assange

Re:UK threaten to enter Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian... by guelo on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @07:14PM (#4388864)

Ecuador's justification is that they believe there is a chance that the USA is planning to extradite him from Sweeden and then charge him with a crime which is punishable by death. Ecuador believes that a death sentence is a violation of Assange's human rights.

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Re:UK threaten to enter Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian... by objclxt on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @07:19PM (#4388892)

Which is of course a highly suspect claim to make, since both Sweden and the UK do not extradite for crimes that are subject to the death penalty.

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Re:UK threaten to enter Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian... by vidarh on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @08:05PM (#4389121)

That is a pretty grand claim to make, when Sweden has conceded that they have participated in rendition from Sweden to Egypt that was in clear and blatant violation of both Swedish law and international treaties. They were censured by the UN for it. And those are only two cases where they were caught red-handed.

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Re:UK threaten to enter Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian... by belorn on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @07:38PM (#4389004)

Sweden has done it before with the same laws that exist now. Simply put, there is no punishment if they would extradite Assange to the US.

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Re:UK threaten to enter Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian... by klodolph on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @07:25PM (#4388923)

But of course, they are not extraditing him for those crimes.

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