Assange: Refugee or Fugitive?

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Because they cannot guarentee that the US will not attempt to extradite him in the future. That is why.

His demand is unrealistic and practically impossible.

It may be a stunt, but that's not the main topic here which is the heavy handed way in which this case is being handled by Sweden and the UK, and the fact that the UK is not recognizing his legal status as a political refugee.

Just for reference for foreingers, ABC stands for the australian broadcast corporation ...

Thanks for that, it was 1:30 AM and I was tired as hell, so I didn't bother posting any links that I should have, I found the 4 Corners program and posted it, as far as I'm concerned Germans could have easily done what you did which was look up the referenced material in the program (I could have done it as well, but not at 1:30AM!)

One might aswell argue that every offender in the US has to fear waterbording - simply because it happened in the wake og 9/11.

No Germans, it's not that at all. You've missed the entire point of it all. The USA and most other western countries, has a totally corrupted justice system which punishes the least fortunate individuals, and allows powerful people (especially those in government or government agencies like the CIA) to totally forgoes justice. As Waratah said, just look at the treatment of David Hicks for example. I don't like the guy at all, Hicks was involved in stuff that was probably criminal, but all they could put on him was "material support for terrorism" which is a totally bogus charge of course.

I've been asking for years, and year now when will George W Bush, Barrack Obama, Dick Cheney, etc, etc, face criminal prosecution under the un convention against torture which the USA signed and ratified? Oh wait, that's right, because those criminals are too powerful, too rich for the arms of justice to reach. I'm not leftwing, so don't talk to me as if I'm some crackpot humanitarian, I'm not. I call it how I see it Germans.