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Swedish Prosecutor Finally Treks to London to Question Julian Assange

posted by janrinok on Tuesday November 15 2016, @12:23AM   
from the times-they-are-a'changing dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is finally being questioned by prosecutors more than six years after he was first accused of rape in Sweden.

Ingrid Isgren, Sweden's deputy chief prosecutor, arrived at the Ecuadorian Embassy this morning, according to The Guardian, ending a stalemate which began in 2012 when the South American nation offered Assange political asylum on the grounds that he faced political persecution from the United States.

Assange claims that the rape accusations, which he denies, are part of a plot to extradite him to the United States that would swing into action were he to answer prosecutors' questions in the Scandinavian country.

The interview suggests some forward movement is being made in the diplomatic deadlock between Ecuador and Sweden regarding the arrangements for Swedish prosecutors to talk to Assange in the embassy.

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• Re:Progress? Not really. Re:Progress? Not really. (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @01:27AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @01:27AM (#426787)

  Perhaps the president-elect is smart enough to realize that Assange is just a publisher. He doesn't steal the secrets any more than the NY Times (bad example, they just make stuff up nowadays) does. If mainstream media did its job Assange and wikileaks would not exist.

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• Re:Progress? Not really. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @06:28AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @06:28AM (#426885)

  True, but have you ever heard of "shooting the messenger"? Governments and other higher-ups love doing that.

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