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Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact

posted by takyon on Tuesday December 15 2015, @01:29AM   
from the extradition dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Ecuador and Sweden have struck an agreement on how the two nations will co-operate on criminal matters that will likely advance the investigation into sexual assault charges levelled against Wikileaker-in-chief Julian Assange.

Ecuador's Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Movilidad Humana revealed the agreement last week. The Ministerio's statement on the agreement says, after a pass through an online translat-o-tron, that "The agreement in question is undoubtedly an instrument that strengthens bilateral relations and facilitate, for example, compliance with judicial proceedings, as the interrogation of Mr. Assange asylum in the Embassy of Ecuador in London."

Is the agreement good news, or bad, for Assange?

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Original Submission

• no, or in four-and-a-half years.. no, or in four-and-a-half years.. (Score: 3, Interesting) by MostCynical on Tuesday December 15 2015, @02:34AM

  by MostCynical (2589) on Tuesday December 15 2015, @02:34AM (#276488) Journal

  http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/12/julian-assange-may-face-swedish-interrogation-within-days [theguardian.com]

  Statutes of limitation on three of the possible charges have been reached.
  Only the one possible rape charge to go...

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• Re:no, or in four-and-a-half years.. (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday December 15 2015, @11:48AM

  by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday December 15 2015, @11:48AM (#276600) Journal

  He's also wanted in the UK for jumping bail, so even if the rape charges are dropped there's a potential fine / prison sentence waiting for him in the UK.

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