Julian Assange: rapist or not?

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Just to clarify something, Assange was never questioned in relation to the incident with Sofia, the one that is the basis of the rape allegation. He only answered questions about his relationship with Anna.

It was also made very clear to him that the prosecutor wanted to reinterveiw him, and while he was allowed to leave, it was on the condition he returned. The interveiw was ready to happen before he left, but according to his lawyer, he was unable to contact Assange for a week and then he learned Assange had travelled to the UK.

This in itself is puzzling behaviour. When you know that the investigation has been reopened, why would you avoid your laywer and then leave the country without telling them what you are doing and where you are going?
 
Again, I've asked this before, as well, without a response:

How do cases where no one was extradited to the US prove that someone will be extradited from Sweden to the US?

This is not supported by logic.

I am not going to point to the thousands, no, millions of cases that people have not been shot into space as evidence that Assange will be shot into space.

Do you see why this is unconvincing?
 
I can't find any examples of Sweden extraditing anyone to the US at all.

Sweden has many high-profile cases of US nationals not being extradited back to the US if their case involved anything to do with the military or politics.

CIA Most Wanted Edward Lee Howard, US Air Force most wanted David A. Hemler.

Can anyone find a case of Sweden "bending to the will of the US" and extraditing anyone there? I only ask because it keeps being asserted that it is obviously the kind of thing that happens.

Has it ever happened? Is Assange making everyone worried about something that has never happened?

If it's never happened, I could still see someone not wanting to be the first, but it makes it seem less overwhelmingly certain, somehow.
 
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/po...ll-go-to-sweden-diplomats-20121204-2atbh.html

AUSTRALIAN government officials believe that WikiLeaks is ''broken'' and that Julian Assange has no alternative other than to surrender for extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations.

They do not rule out the WikiLeaks publisher's eventual extradition to the United States.

As Assange nears six months' confinement in Ecuador's London embassy, security and diplomatic sources in Canberra have privately expressed confidence that WikiLeaks is ''effectively moribund''.

It is thought that the transparency group's dwindling financial support will ''sooner or later dry up'' leaving Assange ''irrelevant and with little alternative other than to leave Ecuador's embassy''.

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LOL!

See, it's not Sweden the Assange toadies need to worry about, it's his own country.

Being locked up for 5-6 years in a Swedish prison is probably the best thing that could happen to him now.
 
They do not rule out the WikiLeaks publisher's eventual extradition to the United States.
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They appear to be not ruling that out in the same way they're not ruling out him being kidnapped by Martians.
 
zooterkin said:
Hmm, perhaps he is looking that far ahead. Which country is more likely to send him back to Australia, Sweden or the UK?
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Neither. He is not wanted there and there is no call for extradition to there. Sweden may deport him, but where he goes after that is entirely his choice.

He is the one who wants to be a member of the Senate and return to there.

And as far as I can determine, being a Senator does not exempt you from any laws at all.
 
Has anyone had any luck showing where Sweden extradited anyone to the US when it had anything to do with political or military crimes?

It's boring just looking at all these cases where Sweden refused requests from the US.

Is Assange scared of becoming the first, or has a Swedish-US extradition happened before?
 
The article suggests that the US will use espionage charges. Any idea how that would go?

Has Sweden ever extradited to the US in a political or military case?

There are examples where Sweden has denied the US. Give an example where they extradited to the US in a political case.
 
Just to butt in out of the blue and answer the title of the OP:

Not.

Unless it can be proven otherwise.

Which, so far, has not been done.

Sure, a woman thinks she may have been molested.

Sure, Assanges sexual endeavors are sordid.

Yet the context for these charges behooves us to question the wider picture irrespective of the motives of individuals.
 
Zeuzzz said:
Just to butt in out of the blue and answer the title of the OP:

Yet the context for these charges behooves us to question the wider picture irrespective of the motives of individuals.
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Certainly. An accused rapist is avoiding going to trial, and after exhausting a series of appeals, has chosen to break the law to continue that evasion.

I'm drawing the obvious conclusion from that.

What do you think?
 
nathan said:
Certainly. An accused rapist is avoiding going to trial, and after exhausting a series of appeals, has chosen to break the law to continue that evasion.

I'm drawing the obvious conclusion from that.

What do you think?
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Frame that in the broader context of wikileaks and I'll be happier.

I've come round a little since contributing to this thread, I agree with phantomwolf to an extent, I think that Assange is the only person holding himself hostage at this point in time.
 
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