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Swedish Prosecutor to Reopen Julian Assange Investigation

posted by martyb on Tuesday May 14 2019, @11:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the now-you-don't-see-it,-now-you-do? dept.

takyon writes:

Swedish prosecutor reopens Assange rape investigation, will seek extradition

Sweden's state prosecutor said on Monday she would reopen an investigation into a rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and seek his extradition from Britain.

Prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson told a news conference she would continue and conclude a preliminary investigation that was dropped in 2017 without charges being brought as Assange had taken refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.

[...] The Swedish prosecutor's office said it would shortly request Assange be detained in his absence on probable cause for an allegation of rape and that it would issue a European arrest warrant - the process under which his extradition would be sought.

Please extradite me to Sweden and not the U.S.?

Also at BBC:

Wikileaks said the reopening of the rape case would give Assange "a chance to clear his name". "There has been considerable political pressure on Sweden to reopen their investigation, but there has always been political pressure surrounding this case," its editor-in-chief, Kristinn Hrafnsson, said in a statement.

A lawyer for Assange told Swedish broadcaster SVT that the decision was "embarrassing for Sweden", adding that his client wanted to resolve the case but feared being extradited to the US.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday May 14 2019, @05:34PM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday May 14 2019, @05:34PM (#843500) Journal

    This is the rock tumbler the 1% put their sharpest critics in to wear them down and punish them. The same fate awaits Snowden, unless some courageous person of conscience issues him a presidential pardon or something dramatically shifts in the global power dynamic.

    We've had a lot of recent examples of people who get thrown into the rock tumbler, and others in the good graces of the 1% who inexplicably escape it no matter how blatant their offenses. We can all see how far from real justice and democracy we are, and have been for a while.

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    Washington DC delenda est.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 15 2019, @12:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 15 2019, @12:08PM (#843792)

    Well, it has been this way for a very long time.
    Back in Ye Olde days, if you threatened the king's power, you got drawn and quartered and your remains hung in a gibbet to warn everyone that you don't mess with the king.
    The same power dynamic exists today.