Gottfrid Svartholm Warg Arrested In Cambodia

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Gottfrid Svartholm Warg Arrested In Cambodia

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 1, 2012 @02:23AM from the hear-the-spiders-are-delicious dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, alias "anakata," was arrested two days ago (Original, Swedish) in Pnohm Pehn, Cambodia and may soon be facing extradition to Sweden (alternate sources: Aftonbladet (Swedish), IDG (Swedish)). He was sentenced to one year in prison for his involvement in The Pirate Bay in 2009 and failed to appear at the prison to serve his sentence. On a related note, the domain freeanakata.se seems to have been registered today although it currently isn't resolving."

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Sweden in general by IamGarageGuy+2 · 2012-09-01 02:31 · Score: 4, Interesting

It appears to me that Sweden is becoming the centre of internet freedom battles. Is this geographical, cultural,legal or just luck of the draw?

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1. Re:Sweden in general by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 02:49 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  These weren't cases anyone cared about until US money and pressure started telling Swedish authorities to care about them.
2. Re:Sweden in general by Sqr(twg) · 2012-09-01 03:13 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Breivik was sentenced to cointainment. That means he will only get out if he's deemed to no longer be dangerous to society. Very likely he'll be in prison until he dies.
3. Re:Sweden in general by teg · 2012-09-01 03:13 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  This is completely unrelated.. and this guys is obviously panicking, Sweden is very soft even to real criminals, they might be even softer then their neighbor Norway (where a man executed 77 children and only got max of 21 years in a comfy prison cell with a laptop and TV). The prison there is more like a rehab.
  The 21 year sentence is subject to extension if he is considered a danger to society. He's never going to get out. He might deserve anything, but we like to think we have progressed somewhat.
4. Re:Sweden in general by sco08y · 2012-09-01 04:17 · Score: 2
  
  This is completely unrelated.. and this guys is obviously panicking, Sweden is very soft even to real criminals, they might be even softer then their neighbor Norway (where a man executed 77 children and only got max of 21 years in a comfy prison cell with a laptop and TV). The prison there is more like a rehab.
  The 21 year sentence is subject to extension if he is considered a danger to society. He's never going to get out. He might deserve anything, but we like to think we have progressed somewhat.
  So you're sentencing him to death by bureaucracy? How is this progress?
5. Re:Sweden in general by jeffasselin · 2012-09-01 04:18 · Score: 2
  
  But you can't know that until you try.
  
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6. Re:Sweden in general by Samantha+Wright · 2012-09-01 04:28 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  We should start a campaign to extradite everyone to Sweden. I think it would be a great protest movement.
  
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7. Re:Sweden in general by koolfy · 2012-09-01 04:36 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  another guy accused of rape
  Julian Assange has not been charged of anything by any authority of any kind. He is wanted for questioning on allegations of sexual misconduct Source
  
  leaves the country when his lawyer tells him that he is wanted for questioning
  Before leaving the country he consulted with the judge, who decided there was nothing holding him there and he could leave Swedish soil.
  
  caught in Britain
  Not caught, he turned himself to the police after it became clear that the illegal (or at least illegitimate) Interpol red notice was not going away. This, in the hope of resolving the matter.
  
  then disappearing into some embassy
  He did not disappear, he sought asylum. That's quite a difference.
  
  in breach of his bail conditions
  Because it was the only choice he had left to avoid being ultimately handed over to a country where he would be tortured or executed, thus breaching the Geneva Conventions
  
  which _does_ make him a criminal in the UK
  He has not been charged nor convicted of any crime by any government yet, not Sweden, not the USA, not even the UK as far as I can tell. (prove me otherwise)
  
  On the other hand, Augusto Pinochet, charged by Spain for the killing of 3000 Chilean people, and torturing 30 000 more, including the raping of political prisoners with trained dogs, was not only not extradited by the UK but often drank tea with Margaret Tacher
  
  This just goes to show you how much lies we are being fed by governments and medias alike. It's fairly easy to hear officials make the same mistakes as you did.
  Not because they are ignorant. Then know very well the details of this case. They're not stupid. They just choose to deliberately lie.
  
  You can agree or disagree with the importance of what Wikileaks does, and the importance of what Assange and Manning do for our society, but that doesn't make your claims any less WRONG
  
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8. Re:Sweden in general by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 04:50 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  In a similar manner, leaving Sweden (after he had been requested to stay in Sweden by Swedish authorities) made him a criminal in Sweden
  That's not what happened though. He stayed for several weeks, said he was going to leave for engagements in the UK, got an ok to leave and left.
  I'm surprised you were able to post all that text, yet hadn't researched even the basics on the topic.
  / an ashamed Swede
9. Re:Sweden in general by Shihar · 2012-09-01 05:11 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Julian Assange has not been charged of anything by any authority of any kind. He is wanted for questioning on allegations of sexual misconduct
  I can only assume that you are from Britain or the US (or some nation with a similar system of law) if you think this matters. Sweden's legal system is different. If he was on the run from the US instead of Sweden with the exact same charges and they held the same legal weight, he would have an arrest warrant out and have been charged. The US, Britain, and other similar legal systems charge someone formally and then try and capture them in most cases. The suspect is rarely present when charged. The Swedish system captures them and then charges them. Successfully running when they initiate the "capture and question" part of the Swedish system doesn't mean a get out of jail free card. It is of the same severity and holds similar legal weight to being charged in the US or Britain and having arrest warrant issued. This isn't the voluntary phase where you can talk to the police or not. He is in the "we are going to hold you and question you" phase, and there is a legal warrant to detain him which he has run from, which is why Britain is willing to extradite him.
  Whether or not the charges are legitimate and is this a secret plot by the US to snag him, I'll let other people argue. I'm happy Wikileaks exists regardless of whether or not Assange is a douche bag.
10. Re:Sweden in general by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 05:34 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  c) Swedish authorities got really burned in 2001 by a US government that didn’t keep their promises and didn't tell the truth, when they have handed over two "criminal suspects" to US agents (the English language wikipedia article seem to have been slightly censored), making Swedish authorities look very gullible.
  The only thing we can say for sure is that Sweden now have a history of turning over people to countries where they can be tortured without having any kind of evidence for their alleged crimes. Julian Assange might be paranoid but he also have a reason to be. Obviously neither Sweden nor the U.S. are above breaking their own laws and resorting to torture by proxy.
11. Re:Sweden in general by jon3k · 2012-09-01 06:57 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Holy shit you let women on the internet????? Does the Internet High Council know about this???????
12. Re:Sweden in general by Larryish · 2012-09-01 09:10 · Score: 2
  
  Lord, I sure hope not.
13. Re:Sweden in general by Kidbro · 2012-09-01 09:40 · Score: 2
  
  Yes. Because all verdicts are made with 100% accuracy, and no innocent man has ever been sentenced to death.
  
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14. Re:Sweden in general by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 11:38 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  What a ridiculous statement. Girls everywhere use the internet.
  Wow, I hate to break it to you man...... but that hot 20 year old you've been chatting with is actually an old fat guy living in his moms basement.
15. Re:Sweden in general by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 20:12 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  Pinochet was a US puppet, put in place on September 11, 1973. And the 3000 Chileans were killed by US people. (Yeah, they probably conveniently leave that out in US history education.)
Prison for copyright violations by fustakrakich · 2012-09-01 02:45 · Score: 2

Time to shoot back? Or is self defense still frowned upon?

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1. Re:Prison for copyright violations by ultranova · 2012-09-01 04:44 · Score: 2
  
  When a criminal is killed during criminal action, you, law enforcement should say, Alhamduli Allah, and wash your hands of any activities against the intended victim of such action.
  
  Frankly, Sweden and Norway seem better places to live than those where people praise their God whenever someone they don't like gets killed and the police "wash their hands" from investigating anything they don't feel like.
  Also, do you really want to draw the attention of the kind of god that would find this sort of praise desirable - or the kind who didn't but just got it anyway?
  
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Does Ecuador have an embassy in Cambodia? by John+Hasler · 2012-09-01 02:46 · Score: 5, Funny

n/t

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pointless links by alphatel · 2012-09-01 03:08 · Score: 4, Insightful

On a related note, the domain freeanakata.... seems to have been registered today although it currently isn't resolving."
Linking to a domain that any goon could have registered for profit is somewhere between spammy and stupid.

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1. Re:pointless links by mikael_j · 2012-09-01 03:32 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  I'm the one who registered the domain. I have no intent on profiting from it, just thought of all the old "Free Kevin" websites when I heard about the arrest and registered the domain. I'm currently gathering URLs to different reports on the arrest and putting them on the site.
  
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2. Re:pointless links by b4dc0d3r · 2012-09-01 04:43 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  The story doesn't read like AC submitter knew anything about you, which makes it still a bad idea. And your assurances to the contrary, at this point in time I don't know you, nor does it feel any less in the range of spammy to stupid to do so.
  And if you submitted the story anonymously to give an "I don't know anything about this website but it's here in case you're interested later" feel to it, I actually feel dirty replying. Good luck with all of that.
Next time try Taliban or Al-Shabaab controlled by mapkinase · 2012-09-01 03:11 · Score: 2

Next time try Taliban or Al-Shabaab controlled territory. The rest of the world is bent over to their American overlords.

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Failed to Appear by Riddler+Sensei · 2012-09-01 03:14 · Score: 4, Funny

...failed to appear at the prison to serve his sentence.
This bit got me to chuckle.
"You said you were going to beeeeee there!"
1. Re:Failed to Appear by Shihar · 2012-09-01 05:17 · Score: 2
  
  The charge is stupid, but you kind of have to be a dumb ass to run from 1 year of prison in Sweden. Sweden is not exactly known for their harsh prisons, and a year in jail sounds a lot better than being forever on the run.
2. Re:Failed to Appear by Mathinker · 2012-09-01 06:44 · Score: 2
  
  > and a year in jail sounds a lot better than being forever on the run.
  It's not clear to me that with a $1.1M judgment against him, the Swedish authorities would ever let him leave the country again.