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Assange Requests Asylum In Ecuador

Posted by Soulskill on from the where-in-the-world-is-julian-assange dept.

david.emery writes "Julian Assange, his appeals in the United Kingdom having run out, today went to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to request asylum from his pending extradition to Sweden to face questioning for 'unlawful coercion and sexual misconduct including rape.'"

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  1. Dumb reading by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Assange is scheduled to be extradited to Sweden for a violent crime. This has nothing to do with the USA, or WikiLeaks.

    1. Re:Dumb reading by FhnuZoag · · Score: 0, Troll

      He is not *in trouble for not using a condom*. He is in trouble for obtaining a sex act that the other partner did not consent to, and initiating a sex act whilst the partner is asleep. He's in trouble for RAPE. RAPE. RAPE. Stop spreading ridiculous lies.

    2. Re:Dumb reading by jellomizer · · Score: -1, Troll

      In general stuff that if it really supprised you, then you are an idiot. yes we all know our respective countries feed us a degree of propaganda. Because there are some voter disapproved things that need to be done to keep alies, or some representatives who can't keep their mouth shut or use the information to mess up a plan.
      Nothing leaked from Wikileaks was that big deal if you think a little more big picture.
      It ain't a perfect world, and your side isn't always the good side.

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  2. I have mixed feelings about this... by Lisias · · Score: -1, Troll

    If by one side I hope Assange gets it (as, in fact, he is being unlawfully persecuted by US government), on the other side it will be a big shame for everybody else that just a half baked democracy on a third-world country (hey, I live on one of these, I know what I'm talking) has the guts to stand up against tiranny.

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    1. Re:I have mixed feelings about this... by Lisias · · Score: 1, Troll

      Incredible how ideological patrolling is taking place here at Slashdot.

      No one can say anything a bit harsh and/or contrary to the political correctness - no matter being true or not - and is gifted by a nice "troll" label.

      As a matter of fact, this is becoming something to be proud of.

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  3. Put Him In Jail Now! by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is why Assange should have been in jail from the beginning, and not staying in a country mansion. What fools he has just made of the UK legal system.

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  4. Re:[Stupid] move by Adriax · · Score: 0, Troll

    The first thing a swedish official would tell him the moment his plane lands would be: "Sorry about that, charges have been dropped, but those CIA agents over in that other plane are going to have a word with you. Goodbye."

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  5. Re:All this trouble. by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, he's not *afraid* of it. He *knows* it. This whole thing was such an obvious setup from the get-go that I'm surprised the CIA had the balls to even try it. Shit, even Dominique Strauss-Kahn was less obvious than this mess.

    Excuse me, Sir, but your tinfoil hat has slipped a bit to the side. You probably want to get it more firmly back on your head again.

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  6. Re:[Stupid] move by FhnuZoag · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is an inaccurate depiction of events, as was established in the 2011 extradition hearing. Specifically, Assange's lawyer lied: The Swedes asked him for questioning. On hearing this news, Assange then refused to report in as he should have, but instead fled the country.

    http://assangewatch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/bjorn-hurtig-has-some-explaining-to-do.html
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/08/julian-assange-extradition-hearing-texts

    As for the charges being picked up again, there's any number of reasons why this might be so. Perhaps new witness testimony emerged. Perhaps the note that on the day the charges were initially dropped, the two women issued a complaint to the Swedish public prosecutions is significant. Perhaps it was the fact that the charges were initially dropped after 24 hours of examination by the city's chief prosecutor and then picked up again by a sex crimes specialist?

    We don't know at this point. But it shouldn't really make sense for the timeline of events that actually took place to be consistent with the conspiracy theories. Why, we should ask, if this was all an American plot, was the charges dropped from Assange ahead of the cables leak (when everyone suspected he had the cables), and then only reinstated after the cables were already passed on and so capturing Assange pointless?