‘Assange won’t come’: Swedish MPs urge end to whistleblower case

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12. The magistrates in the UK wrestled with this question for quite a while, before folding.

I think this is the best recap on the whole subject:

"As in so many international disputes, the key to the resolution of the Julian Assange asylum case is the United States. If the White House, via US Attorney-General Eric Holder, would issue a diplomatic assurance that the US would not be seeking the extradition of Assange from Sweden, then the problem could simply disappear. Assange could safely face prosecution in Sweden and test the case against him – and both Britain and Sweden could avoid violating the principles of non-refoulement to which they are subject under the 1951 Refugee Convention."

>snip


"Under the “third country” refoulement provisions of the Refugee Convention, it is Britain that holds the prime responsibility for ensuring that the country to which it extradites an accused person does not then forward them onwards to a third country to face torture and persecution."


>more

http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2012/08/17/gordon-campbell-on-the-julian-assange-extradition-battle/

The US is the only one applying pressure. The Swedes don't have a real case against him and they never did.