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OnyxCollie

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6. "The Swedish government cannot undertake to never render him to the USA."

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #3)

Sun Aug 19, 2012, 11:01 AM

Aug 2012

CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cat.html

Article 3

No State Party shall expel, return ("refouler&quot or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture.
For the purpose of determining whether there are such grounds, the competent authorities shall take into account all relevant considerations including, where applicable, the existence in the State concerned of a consistent pattern of gross, flagrant or mass violations of human rights.

If Assange is extradited to the US, he'll be subjected to torture.

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