It has been one month since UK police entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London and arrested Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. the Wikileaks founder has already been slapped with a 50-week sentence for skipping his bail in the UK, and as the UK prepares to process an extradition request from US prosecutors, they now must also decide whether Sweden has a legitimate claim.
Swedish prosecutors are again requesting that Assange be extradited to Sweden to face trial on rape charges after prosecutors revived an investigation following reports that Assange had been ousted from the embassy. Assange managed to avoid extradition to Sweden for seven years by hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy (Assange initially sought refuge there back in 2012, when he skipped bail in the UK and took shelter in the embassy, claiming that the charges in Sweden were merely a ruse for him to be handed over to the US), according to RT.
Though Assange has only been charged with one count of attempting to break into a government computer in the US – a charge that carries a maximum penalty of five-and-a-half years – his lawyers have speculated that the US could introduce charges under the Espionage Act, which could carry a death sentence, once he’s safely back on American soil. Wikileaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson accused Sweden of bowing to external pressure, saying “there has been considerable political pressure on Sweden to reopen their investigation, but there has always been political pressure surrounding this case.”
In other Assange-related news, El Pais reports that the government of Ecuador will allow UK authorities to search a room occupied by Assange during his seven-year asylum, and will turn over any documents, cellphones, digital files, computers, memory drives, CDs and any other items of interest investigators might discover.
Assange’s room will be searched on May 20. Ecuador’s decision to confiscate his belongings and turn them over to foreign authorities has been relayed to Assange’s attorneys.
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So their imported jungle bunnies rape Swedish girls at will and they’re chasing Assange? They ought to be grateful they found a white guy who could get it up. What a ridiculous fucking country.
This is at the behest of the good old USA, which somehow, to my continuous shock, has become an evil empire worse that the USSR ever was because it has the power to cause trouble anywhere in the world. Sane Americans tried to put an end to it by electing Trump, yet things get worse every day. What next?
Fucking Pompeo. .
Maybe I can suggest a trade deal.
The Swedish government agrees to not prosecute Mr Assange in return for the immediate importation to the Scandinavian nation of a new horde of 1,000,000 each Sub-Saharan African Negroes and radicalized Muslims.
The U.K. government lets Mr Assange out of gaol and allows him free to leave the country in return for the arrest of Teresa May and Jeremy Corbin for not honoring the Brexit vote of three years ago. The Canadians agree to let Ms Huawei to be extradited to Britain where she may be then transferred to the U.S.A. for prosecution. Talk about a bargaining chip to play in the mushrooming trade war with the PRC.
The U.S.A. drops charges against Mr Assange (with big pressure from Walmart & Amazon among a host of other businesses) in a return to unlimited no-tariff goods from China and a free hand in any industrial espionage they might like to engage in. Just like the good old days, yup.
Mr Assange gets to select the exile location of his choice including French Polynesia as the French are known to love outcasts and discards to include Ayatollah Khomeini and Duvalier of Haiti fame or perhaps in Russia as their position on freedom of expression is growing to exceed even the moribund West. After all the Russkys did give the world Pussy Riot. Julian Assange would then team up with Edward Snowdon for the world greatest open source intel program, based in St Petersburg on Youtube. Well maybe not Youtube.
C’mon Mr Trump; step up to the plate and show us the real art of the deal.
Free Julian Assange!
Mr. Assange should IMMEDIATELY convert to Islam.
The Swedes, in turn, will immediately find him Not Guilty of rape.
Damn! That’s great idea.
And then he should demand that the women he had sex with be stoned.