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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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Assange Appeal Rejected by Sweden's Supreme Court
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(Score: 2) by moondrake on Wednesday May 13 2015, @09:28AM
The status quo is beneficial to the powers that be : being able to continuously represent the man as a criminal, and for as far as it matters, having him locked up at the same time. A trail or not being able to officially accuse him at all would be worse.
But apart from that, it is simply human pride. Have a look at this [friatider.se]... Apart from the insights of some (ex) law prof, who may be right or not, it is clear that are at least some morons in Swedish public offices that actually think this is a pissing contest and a suspect (which he is not officially at this moment...) should not be entitled to dictate the venue. Thus, they simply stall due process to make a point. Whatever the cost.
I am not Swedish but I do not understand how Ms Ny manages to keep her job. A prosecutors job is not about ones own interest, she should be shown the door for letting emotions dictate her actions (and frankly, even if this is not the reason, she should be moved of the case for making it seem that this is so, after repeated pressure by judges to do something about the situation). Perhaps though she even realizes this herself and will attempt to keep Assange in the embassy until the statue of limitations make it impossible to still accuse him. That way, she can claim she was right, but is now unable to prosecute him. And then of course lobby for further erosion of our freedom to prevent rapist and other evildoers do such horrible things in the future. She might make a fine politician, who knows...