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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @06:11PM
Its called "presumption of innocence", the idea that everyone is innocent until proven guilty, rather than your idea that everyone is guilty until proven innocent.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday November 15 2016, @11:13PM
In the court of public opinion, it's whatever the fuck WE THE PEOPL say.
I am not a judge, nor a lawyer, nor even a jurist. I am a voter, a taxpayer, and an old bastard who has had 60 years to get acquainted with human nature.
There is no presumption of innocence, you silly AC.