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Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK
concertina226 writes "Lawyers representing Julian Assange have demanded that he be questioned in London over rape and sexual molestation allegations. 'Prosecutor Marianne Ny must ... start treating him as everybody else who is under suspicion. Assuming that the prosecutor does not have a prejudiced opinion regarding the question of guilt, and is prepared to treat the different versions objectively, it is obvious that an interrogation with Julian Assange would benefit everybody, including the injured parties,' the lawyers wrote."
Fact is, I'd have had much more respect if he'd done his play to cameras, and then just followed through the legal system properly.
Why? I don't find stupidity to be wothy of respect.
He followed through the legal system as far as it went and his extradition to Sweden was imminent.
The thing is, Sweden have a proven history of being active in extraordinary renditions---sending people to be tortured by the CIA---and the Swedish authorities refused to confirm that he wouldn't be bundled straight off to the US. Certain members of the US government were also baying for blood at the time. In other words he had a very good point and it would have been a dumb move for him to have gone to Sweden.
Better for him to rot in gaol for a year or two than get tortured by the CIA.
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It's the fatal flaw in dear old Julian's argument: He's worried about the Americans getting hold of him, so he'd rather stay in the UK where extradition to the US is easy, rather than go to Sweden where extradition to the US is much harder. Or maybe there's another reason....
In the pirate bay case history has shown us that sweden and it's authorities easily succumb to the pressure from U.S. I think that Assange's fear of return to the sweeden is very well justified.