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British Police Stop 24/7 Monitoring of Julian Assange At Ecuadorian Embassy (ibtimes.co.uk)

Posted by samzenpus on from the stop-watching dept.

Ewan Palmer writes with news that police are no longer guarding the Ecuadorian Embassy where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been taking refuge for the past three years. According to IBTImes: "London police has announced it will remove the dedicated officers who have guarded the Ecuadorian Embassy 24 hours a day, seven days a week while WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange seeks asylum inside. The 44-year-old has been holed up inside the building since 2012 in a bid to avoid being extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault charges. He believes that once he is in Sweden, he will be extradited again to the US where he could face espionage charges following the leaking of thousands of classified documents on his WikiLeaks website. Police has now decided to withdraw the physical presence of officers from outside the embassy as it is 'no longer proportionate to commit officers to a permanent presence'. It is estimated the cost of deploying the officers outside the Embassy in London all day for the past three years has cost the British taxpayer more than $18m."

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  1. Re:He hasn't been charged by peragrin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Under Swiss law he can't be charged before he is brought before a judge you can't be tried in absentia. You can't be charged In absentia.

    Seriously why are idiots applying English law in Swedish courts? Of course only idiots defend him.

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    i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
  2. Re:18 million for someone that was NEVER Charged?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's not how things work here. The police typically interview you before charges are file. Assange has refused the interview. It's not like in the US where you can be charged before having a chance to defend yourself. He is the one holding up being charged. It isn't the lack of evidence.

  3. Re:Extradition from Sweden is a lie by ArmoredDragon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Seriously, you Assange cult members just make up a lot of shit just to feed his gigantic narcissistic ego. I'll debunk two of the cult myths right here:

    First of all, the US/UK treaty allows for a LOT more ways that somebody can get extradited than the US/Sweden treaty, so the whole notion that he would fare worse in Sweden is a load of horse shit.

    Second of all, no European state has any extradition treaties that permit the death penalty. Regardless of whether he was extradited from either the UK or Sweden to the US there's no death penalty.

    http://www.theguardian.com/med...