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Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact

posted by takyon on Tuesday December 15 2015, @01:29AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by radu on Tuesday December 15 2015, @09:25AM

    by radu (1919) on Tuesday December 15 2015, @09:25AM (#276584)

    http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/01/sweden-julian-assange-ecuador-embassy_n_1728911.html [huffingtonpost.co.uk]

    Ecuador had given Sweden permission to interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange inside their London Embassy - where the 40-year-old has been for six weeks.

    This was in 2012. What exactly is different now?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @03:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @03:26PM (#276672)

    This was in 2012. What exactly is different now?

    Assange is worried his Q-value has fallen and he's trying to raise it up.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @09:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @09:44PM (#276828)

    > This was in 2012. What exactly is different now?

    His value as a symbol of what happens to people who challenge the US (isolated in a self-imposed prison) isn't worth pretending they can't interview him any more. So they want to wrap it up win, or lose, sweden just wants to get it over with.