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Re:Spending by the UK government on the siege against Julian... by alextgordon on Thursday February 05, 2015 @09:02AM (#9003247)
The real question in all of this is why does Sweden have an extradition treaty with a country infamous the world over for torture of detainees?
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Re:Spending by the UK government on the siege against Julian... by rhblake on Thursday February 05, 2015 @09:53AM (#9003474)
Well, you could ask roughly half of the world's sovereign states the same question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_extradition_...

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Re:Spending by the UK government on the siege against Julian... by alextgordon on Thursday February 05, 2015 @10:01AM (#9003521)
I would be happy to. "Because everybody else is doing it", is not exactly the most convincing of arguments.
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Re:Spending by the UK government on the siege against Julian... by chippy on Thursday February 05, 2015 @09:15AM (#9003308)
treaties work in both directions
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Re:Spending by the UK government on the siege against Julian... by alextgordon on Thursday February 05, 2015 @09:31AM (#9003370)
Hardly a justification for cooperating with torturers, more of an excuse.
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Re:Spending by the UK government on the siege against Julian... by somebehemoth on Thursday February 05, 2015 @10:33AM (#9003713)
Will you kindly stop referring to the United States as a whole as "torturers"? Not everyone here agrees with our government's use of torture and there is a continuing debate going on here on its usefulness and the need to prevent further abuses.
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