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Time Runs Out On Sweden's Sexual Assault Charges Against Julian Assange
As the Guardian and many other sources report, the clock has run out on the three 2010 charges of sexual assault on which Swedish authorities had hoped try Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Assange has been waiting out those charges since 2012 in London, inside the Ecuadorian embassy, claiming that he feared extradition to the U.S. in connection to this Wikileaks work if he were first extradicted to Sweden. He was recently rebuffed after suggesting that he'd be interested in living in France as a political refugee. The linked Guardian story notes that the expiry of the Swedish prosecutors' time doesn't mean that Assange is no longer under scrutiny, as does CNN.
Amazing he gets away with this stuff.
4) Sweden went to very usual lengths to get Assange for a case of this stature, which might be evidence of an ulterior motive, or a proper reaction by the Swedish authorities to someone who was publicly flouting their legal system in a very public manner.
It's not just Sweden that did that, the UK did too, by spending an awful lot of money posting multiple officers outside the embassy 24/7.
Assange is not a nice person (no nice person would ever run something like Wikileaks, but that's life). He also seems kinda skeezy and if I was to place bets, I would say he's probably guilty of what he's been accused of.
Nonetheless, the whole thing is a bit odd in that the authorities seem to be going to extraordinary lengths compared to crimes that the police just can't seem to be arsed to deal with properly. That makes it seem political. Then of course there's Sweden being complicit in the extraordinary renditions. Sure, they were "mad as hell", but then perhaps those same Swedish authorities shouldn't have handed over the prisoners in the first place.
There is no dichotomy here even if many people seem to be insisting on it. It is perfectly possible that he did what is claimed and is guilty and there's hefty political inteference in the process.
If in doubt, assume asshattery on all sides. That generally explains a lot of behaviour perfectly well.
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I've never understood why people simply assume there can't possibly be any basis in this story.
Many people do not assume that, they have tentatively concluded it after studying the case, the publicly available evidence and Swedish law. Unless your only source of information is Fox News, it's not rocket science.