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Assange Appeal Rejected by Sweden's Supreme Court

posted by mrcoolbp on Tuesday May 12 2015, @12:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the losing-battle dept.

canopic jug writes:

Sweden's highest court has thrown out Julian Assange's appeal against his arrest warrant where he is wanted for questioning. Prosecutor Marianne Ny changed her mind earlier about questioning Assange in London. Assange has repeatedly requested that the questioning take place over the phone or in London as per common practice, to avoid traveling to Sweden where he fears he risks extradition to the US. Sweden has also repeatedly refused to give assurances regarding possible extradition.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 13 2015, @07:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 13 2015, @07:38AM (#182274)

    It may be that if Assange surrendered to the court a few years ago and got convicted, he'd be a free man by now or soon. They wouldn't give him too much for a debatable rape.

    The thing is, he already did. Well, not to the court, because even the police said there wasn't a case. When they finished asking questions, they told him he was free to leave.

    After he left, the case was reopened by completely different people having nothing to do with the rape case.

    Extradiction to the USA would mean nothing, as he was never a US citizen, and had no obligation to keep US secrets, and he hadn't broken US laws while on US territory. He'd be another Snowden, a political prisoner. He'd get no prison time.

    You're assuming he'd be given a fair trial, like a US citizen. If that was the case, there would be a regular extradition case. Instead there is this secret stuff masquerading as a rape case.

    If he goes to Sweden, the extradition will not involve an American Airlines plane (or Lufthansa or whoever flies to Sweden), but one of the unmarked CIA planes, that have previously been used to transport people out of Sweden with help from the Swedish police.

    The Swedish government will likely be officially pissed like last time, but not until the plane has left Swedish airspace. Until then, they will keep saying that there is no extradition request, while at the same time refusing to say that he will not be extradited.