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Assange Requests Asylum In Ecuador
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.'"
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.
Lisias@Earth.SolarSystem.OrionArm.MilkyWay.Local.Virgo.Universe.org
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?