T110's Olympian Thread of Comfort
Дата: 21.04.2018 11:40:08
DerViktim, on Apr 20 2018 - 18:56, said: My understanding is that he was in the UK at the time the
warrant was issued by Sweden to be questioned in regards to the
aforementioned case (which has since been dropped by Swedish
authorities). He was not afraid of extradition to Sweden. He was
afraid that if he was detained by UK authorities, US authorities
would request extradition to answer for his activities surrounding
Wikileaks' publishing of US classified materials (I want to say in
relation to the materials leaked by Chelsea Manning). He is still
holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy because the UK warrant for
questioning is still in place and Assange still is afraid of being
extradited to the US. Even though Sweden dropped the case against
him, US authorities still have an interest in questioning him about
items he leaked YEARS ago, let alone everything he's done
since.
The_Chieftain: Well, where the UK is concerned, there is now the additional
charge of skipping bail, whatever the legalese term for it is in
the UK. That the Swedes have dropped the case is irrelevant to the
Uk offense. A British judge ruled on that two months ago,
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