Assange has requested political asylum & is in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London

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274. Once you familiarize yourself with the facts of the case

you will learn that "just to be interviewed or some such thing" means imprisonment. The pretext for imprisonment is a creative interpretation of the Swedish penal code that has never been applied in any other case.

Show me where anybody else in the world has been arrested for not using a condom and you'll be the winner. I doubt you'll be able to, so there you go with prima facie evidence of persecution and that the law is not applied in a fair and equal manner in Sweden.

Within minutes of determining that such creative interpretation of the law should be attempted, an arrest warrant (detention in absentia) was issued, anonymously leaked to the press, and - in breach of the Swedish confidentiality rules for preliminary investigations - the name of the person to be arrested confirmed.

This deliberate and illegal smear campaign against someone whose political activism had made him famous worldwide in the previous months was the prime reason to suspect foul play on the part of elements in the prosecutor's office and has been widely discussed. The prosecutor's superior and the one actually in charge didn't stand for it and reversed what could be reversed, but, as we all know, the story didn't end there. Assange has been under judicial pressure and under arrest for some 500 days now and it could get much worse.

We'll see if the Ecuadorian authorities can recognize a turkey when they see one. I'm sure they are aware of American interests and influence, so I hope they are going to help Assange and will celebrate them if they do.