Conspiracy theories from Assange supporters do his case no favours (Irish Examiner)

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5. Wow, this editorial is full of misinformation...

Not only can the Swedish government (including its judicial branch) preemptively provide certain assurances to Assange and his legal team, officials from the Justice Ministry already have done so in an interview:

http://rt.com/news/sweden-us-assange-extradition-209/

The Swedish government will not extradite Assange to the US should he face the death penalty there, as any possible extradition request from Washington is then subject to strict conditions, an official from the country’s Justice Ministry declared.

­“We will never surrender a person to the death penalty,” the deputy director of the Service for Criminal Cases and International Cooperation of Sweden’s Justice Ministry said in an interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper on Tuesday.

This means there should be strict guarantees from the US government that “the prisoner will not be executed in any case,”

This is actually the beginning of a diplomatic solution. All they have to do is extend this promise to cover prosecution for political or military crimes, as dictated by Swedish law, and this might be satisfactory to the Assange team.

Also, the editorial in the OP refers to anyone supporting Assange as misogynistic and believing that he is "an honorable and innocent patsy". This has been proven wrong in numerous posts on DU. Now, who is the conspiracy theorist?