Assange: Refugee or Fugitive?

[Something completely different]

Since when does a sovereign country owe a garantee to a non citizen???????? It is the other way arround, a non citizen owes a sovereign country the garante to obay the laws of that sovereign country, and if that non citizen does not - he or she has to face the consequences.


Fact is: The Kingdom of Sweden as almoust every other country within Europe, does not extradite people who face the death penalty in countries who`s prosecution system wants to put them on trial.

Why?

Because it is bound by European law and by the european high court of human rights to do so!!!!!


Nothing, absolutly nothing shady about it. Only for people who interpret their fantasies of world conspiracy into it.

And further more:

It would not be legally possible for Swedish government to give any guarantee about a future extradition, and nor would it have any binding effect on the Swedish legal system in the event of a future extradition request.

By asking for this 'guarantee', Assange is asking the impossible, as he probably knows. Under international law, all extradition requests have to be dealt with on their merits and in accordance with the applicable law; and any final word on an extradition would (quite properly) be with an independent Swedish court, and not the government giving the purported 'guarantee'.

Also Sweden (like the United Kingdom) is bound by EU and ECHR law not to extradite in circumstances where there is any risk of the death penalty or torture. There would be no extradition to the United States in such circumstances.

Am I the only one here who actualy posts sources:

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-...xtradition

http://klamberg.blogspot.se/2012/08/extr...n.html?m=1

http://www.firmmagazine.com/features/117...on%3F.html