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Sweden Will Deliver Pirate Bay Co-Founder To Denmark
wiredmikey writes "Sweden said it will hand over Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg to Denmark where he is wanted for questioning on alleged hacking charges. 'It (the extradition) will take place on November 27,' the prosecutor in charge of the case, Henrik Olin, said, adding that Sweden was responding to an arrest warrant issued by Copenhagen. In June, Danish police revealed that the 30-year-old Swedish hacker is suspected of illegally downloading police files between April and August 2012. He is currently serving a one-year sentence in Sweden for hacking into the computer systems of contractors working for the national tax authority."
Yah this doesn't make much sense to me. If you want to question someone, why does this require shipping him around?
It's not like they're sending him to gitmo. It's the country next door. 300 miles at most. He doesn't even need to show his passport. Chill out dude.
300 miles or 3. We still use phones for a fucking reason. He's wanted for questioning, not a goddamn makeover.
Extraditing someone for charges is indeed customary. Extraditing someone for questioning is not.
In SOVIET RUSSIA... erm...NSA AMERICA, the Internet logs onto YOU!
What I'm asking is why people are concerned about him being extradited to the US when, as far as anyone knows, the US doesn't want him.