Almost right. He has not been prosecuted or accused (which amounts to the same things) he is merely wanted for questioning as a preliminary to ascertaining whether a prosecution should happen at all.
Frankly Assange has nothing to lose by going to Sweden. Either i) the Prosecution fails to prove their case (which seems rather likley) and he goes free or ii) the prosecution does prove their case, Assange serves a tiny sentence in a comfortable Swedish jail whilst still maintaining his innocence, he makes himself out to be a martyr and then is free to travel wherever he wishes after serving his tiny sentence.
To those of you loony conspiracy theorists who have decided that he is in danger of being extradited to the USA could you please answer me me the following:
1) Since the UK is so much closer allied to , and legally deferential to, the USA than Sweden is then why has the USA not requested that Assange be extradited from the UK to the USA?
2) If a person is extradited to a country if a third party wishes to extradite him to their country then they must have the permission of both the original country and the one that now holds that person. So it would be twice the trouble to extradite him to the USA, so why is it easier to extradite him from sweden to the USA than from the UK?
never heard any Assange fan who can answer me this.
Frankly Assange has nothing to lose by going to Sweden. Either i) the Prosecution fails to prove their case (which seems rather likley) and he goes free or ii) the prosecution does prove their case, Assange serves a tiny sentence in a comfortable Swedish jail whilst still maintaining his innocence, he makes himself out to be a martyr and then is free to travel wherever he wishes after serving his tiny sentence.
To those of you loony conspiracy theorists who have decided that he is in danger of being extradited to the USA could you please answer me me the following:
1) Since the UK is so much closer allied to , and legally deferential to, the USA than Sweden is then why has the USA not requested that Assange be extradited from the UK to the USA?
2) If a person is extradited to a country if a third party wishes to extradite him to their country then they must have the permission of both the original country and the one that now holds that person. So it would be twice the trouble to extradite him to the USA, so why is it easier to extradite him from sweden to the USA than from the UK?
never heard any Assange fan who can answer me this.
