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Julian Assange To Be Interviewed In London After All
mpawlo writes: The Swedish Director of Public Prosecution Ms Marianne Ny has submitted a request for legal assistance to the English authorities and a request to Ecuadorian authorities regarding permission to interview Julian Assange at Ecuador's embassy in London during June-July 2015. Back in 2010, a warrant was issued in Stockholm, Sweden for WikiLeaks founder and spokesman Julian Assange. Ever since, Assange has found refugee at the embassy of Ecuador in London.
Jozsef Mindszenty stayed in the US embassy in Budapest for 15 years, 1956-71. But it is a large building. He could walk around, climb stairs, etc. Julian is staying in a small room. Even in prison people are allowed to walk outdoors.
And they NEVER lie in extradition requests....just ask Leonard Peltier. They used the same trick on him and it worked...they got a mentally ill woman to say she was his gf and that he was involved in the crime (shooting of 2 FBI agents on indian land) and Canada rolled right over and gave him up. Now, decades later, Canada has had to live with the fact that they didn't even bother checking out the US' story, which was a complete fabrication. FYI, even the FBI admits they have NO IDEA who shot their agents but that didn't stop them for jailing Peltier.
It's the first sentence of the fucking article, you retarded idiot.
Wonder no more. Anything else I can copy and paste for you, I asked knowing full well that you would need to be walked like a dog, fed like a baby, and cleaned like a shithouse rat?
You're mistaken on several points. Sweden would have to get the permission of the UK to extradite Assange.
I never said anything contrary to that statement, so I fail to see how that supports your statement that I'm mistaken.
It isn't common for prosecutors to go to a foreign country to interview fugitives from justice, which is what Assange is.
Yet, when people complained it was so unusual, there were examples posted of when Sweden did just that.
And he's not a fugitive.
"a person who has escaped from captivity or is in hiding."
He didn't "escape" from Sweden. He left with permission. He isn't "hiding". Everyone knows where he is. He just isn't going out of his way to turn himself in, after having announced his location and intentions to the authorities. I don't know what that is, but it isn't "fugitive".
They probably expect to file charges after the interview and go to trial, so there is even less incentive to go to a foreign country to interview him when the key events will all happen in Sweden.
Previously, Sweden has conducted interviews over the phone. No reason to go there. You have heard of "phones" haven't you?
Assange is getting far more favorable treatment that most fugitives that have jumped bail, and yet his defenders keep crying foul, as if he was being subjected to terrible injustice. That is nonsense. Complete rubbish.
But he never jumped bail. He wasn't under any legal obligation to remain (bail, charges pending, or anything else), and had explicit permission to leave Sweden. So your assertions of "fugitive" are once again baseless and contrary to the dictionary.
His case has been to TWO supreme courts in two different countries and he keeps losing. This has all been to avoid extradition and questioning. Not imprisonment, just questioning. That seems unusually favorable treatment.
He has requested questioning since the beginning. It was denied. Why did Sweden refuse to interview him earlier? That certainly sounds like extraordinary treatment. They are doing it now, what has changed?
How is it that you think (mistakenly) that he has somehow been mistreated or short changed? How?
I never said such things, so I don't need to defend them. Stop lying. It only proves the point that you know you are wrong, when you must lie as the only option to support your (knowingly) false accusations.
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You think Assange isn't a fugitive? Yes, he is. He jumped bail in the UK and fled extradition.
Julian Assange: the fugitive
Assange spent 10 days in jail in December 2010, before being bailed to the stately home of a supporter in Suffolk. There, he was free to come and go in daylight hours, yet he says he felt more in captivity then than he does now. "During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable. And I had to go to the police at a specific time every day – every day – Christmas Day, New Year's Day – for over 550 days in a row." His voice is warming now, barbed with indignation. "One minute late would mean being placed into prison immediately."
Julian Assange supporters ordered to forfeit £93,500 bail money
This gets a little tedious.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
An indictment is soooo necessary to engage in extrajudicial detention or execution. /sarc
Just ask Italy exactly how much the US cares about Italian criminal law, in particular, kidnapping. Twenty some CIA employees were convicted of kidnapping -- of course they ran prior to their trial date. http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
And, if Assange is extradited to the Sweden, then extradited anywhere else
Extradition? Who said anything about extradtiton?
Why not just hand him over to some shady types, then stand by while they shove drugs up his ass and ship him off somewhere to be tortured. Oh don't be silly, you say, Sweden would never do that...
Now, why on earth would Assange be not especially keen on getting involved in the legal system in Sweden I wonder.
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Let me float something by you. And the reasons why I feel most these allegations are a joke. Seemly _two_ women at the same time reported this crime.
No they didn't.
One of them went to the police station to ask if it was possible to force Julian to take an AIDS test. Nobody was accusing anybody of anything at that point.
The police were the ones who started all the 'investigating' and found the second girl. They interviewed her and found she had a similar experience. Result: Julian was interviewed to get his side of the story, then sent home with no charges.
A few weeks later somebody higher-up found "Julian Assange" when they were fishing in the police computer and figured they could maybe use this as an excuse to grab him and take him to the USA. The press were told he was a "serial rapist". The rest is history.
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