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

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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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Burz on Tuesday November 15 2016, @11:24AM

    by Burz (6156) on Tuesday November 15 2016, @11:24AM (#426913)

    Sweden has a history of kidnapping people and putting them on CIA rendition (i.e. torture) flights. If they would do that to a Swedish citizen, there is a definite possibility the Swedish government may arrest Assange and eventually hand him over to the US once the latter's grand jury investigation branches into a public case.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @05:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @05:49AM (#427383)

    Sweden has a history of kidnapping people and putting them on CIA rendition (i.e. torture) flights.

    Do they? Name two such cases.