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.

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Re:Popping the popcorn

[cold fjord]

If I understand the nature of the criminal complaint, there's a class of sexual crime that does not exist in the UK that he stands accused of in Sweden, and that this whole mess is going to be a giant can of worms.

There is no can of worms in that regard. Courts in the UK up through the UK Supreme Court have found that the crimes he is accused of are crimes in the UK, subject to prosecution, and they have approved his extradition.

I wonder if there are any statutes of limitations in Sweden ...

Yes, there is a statue of limitation in Sweden, and some of the crimes will be running into it in a few months. Assage is trying to run out the clock to escape trial for rape and other acts of sexual assault.

Assange recently lost an appeal to the Supreme Court of Sweden to have the warrant for him withdrawn. He is still subject to extradition. Now his lawyers are going to try taking their "case" to international courts claiming that the proceedings against Assange aren't fair, that he has been denied justice somehow. That's a laugh, especially since their claim essentially reduces to Assange has been denied speedy justice without taking notice of the fact that Assange is a fugitive from justice. The man is a study in pathology.