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In reply to the discussion: I don't know what the fuck to believe anymore about the Assange case. [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)Are those not good enough crimes in your book to warrant extradition???
Sweden can't officially charge him as according to their laws they have to do the step of having the interview with him where they're required to show him all the information they've gathered following their investigation, give him the opportunity to refute it and offer names of witnesses on his own behalf. The case cannot go forward without this step, and since he can't offer any evidence of his own that would clear him (he's already admitted to having sexual relations with the two women on the dates alleged) following the "interview" (which is probably not the best word to use in translation to describe what it is) he'll be arrested and charged. He was already aware of this since he has a Swedish attorney to explain how their system works and what was likely to happen in the case, and he fled the day before the scheduled "interview" was to take place.
Read the ruling of the British court that decided on extradition following his final appeal and why that conclusion was reached...
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/world/20110224-Britain-Ruling-Assange-Extradition-to-Sweden.pdf