Swedish Prosecutor Raises Possible Extradition of WikiLeaks Founder to U.S.

[Hissyspit]

Source: New York Times

December 14, 2010, 2:43 PM
Swedish Prosecutor Raises Possible Extradition of WikiLeaks Founder to U.S.
By ROBERT MACKEY

Updated | 6:11 p.m. A Swedish prosecutor raised the possibility that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, could eventually be extradited to the United States in a statement posted online on Tuesday.

Marianne Ny, the Swedish prosecutor who asked British authorities to detain Mr. Assange and send him to Sweden for questioning about possible sex crimes, discussed the possibility of sending him to the United States in a statement posted on the Swedish Prosecution Authority’s Web site on Tuesday.

Perhaps prompted by speculation that Mr. Assange might be indicted by a grand jury meeting in secret in the United States to consider charges against him related to the publication of leaked American military and diplomatic documents, one section of the Swedish prosecutor’s statement, under the heading, “Facts About Extradition of a Person Who Has Been Surrendered,” reads:

Due to general agreements in the European Arrest Warrant Act, Sweden cannot extradite a person who has been surrendered to Sweden from another country without certain considerations. Concerning surrender to another country within the European Union, the Act states that the executing country under certain circumstances must approve a further surrender. On the other hand, if the extradition concerns a country outside the European Union the authorities in the executing country (the country that surrendered the person) must consent such extradition. Sweden cannot, without such consent extradite a person, for example to the U.S.A.

In other words, the prosecutor said that Britain would have to agree to allow Sweden to send Mr. Assange to the United States even if he ends up in Swedish custody.

Read more: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/swedish-prosecutor-raises-possible-extradition-of-wikileaks-founder-to-u-s/?

[MNBrewer]

1. and yes, this has been the goal, all along!

[Junkdrawer]

5. Especially obvious since Assange made himself available for questioning IN SWEDEN for over a month..

and the Swedish prosecutors refused to question him and then granted him permission to leave.

[Arctic Dave]

2. Anyone who says that our judicial system is not joke is an idiot.

The more this goes on the more people see our government as it really is, a force to keep the peons down and t protect the obscenely wealthy.

[Angry Dragon]

8. I find your thread title right on

I think our judicial system is a joke

[Arctic Dave]

11. Oops, had to edit.

My bad.

[Angry Dragon]

15. I edited mine to reflect your edit

:toast:

[Arctic Dave]

17. Cool.

:toast:

[thunder rising]

24. The piss ants shall eat cake ... don't you mean peasants ... pffft whatever

[davidthegnome]

3. If it happens

I will take to the streets in support of Assange. He is one of the few I am still willing to take a stand for.

[krabigirl]

22. Me too. Nt

[Tanelorn]

4. 'without certain considerations'

What considerations? Financial, economic, trade, military hardware?

Suddenly the 'sexual misconduct' seems is less important. Another reason that this is a witchhunt and not seeking of truth behind the original charge. What ever that was. Has he been charged yet? He has been bailed though... sort of.

[Igel]

14. "Further considerations" are adequately defined in the next few sentences.

It really does form a coherent text. Atomizing the text into separate, less-related paragraphs renders it near gibberish.

[Swagman]

6. I feel ill watching this plot as it is alowly revealled

[EFerrari]

13. Me, too. Bunch of corrupt cowards. nt

[bemildred]

7. So would there have to be open British legal process for Sweden to extradite?

Or just "government approval"?
That's the critical question.

[Matariki]

9. And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is what this Theater Of The Absurd has been about from the start.

The US has obviously been making calls to Sweden all along.

[breadandwine]

10. Accuser charged Assange had sex with her while she slept!

Assange was obviously a very boring lover. In Sweden if that isn't sexual abuse what is???????

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101214/ap_on_hi_te/eu_wikileaks_assange

Article also says Bianca Jagger has come to Assange's defense and also Michael Moore who has put up money for Assange's defense. Michael Moore is a KNOWN AGITATOR!!!!!!!


It's time these degenerate libruls with their SEXUAL TURPITUDE were rounded up!!!!!!!!!!

Oh we got trouble! Right here in River City! Corrupting our youth with SCURRILOUS Wikileak material!

Here is the PROOF!!!!!!!!!! -------


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI_Oe-jtgdI


RU-MOR has it that Assange is also IN POSSESSION OF Monica Lewinsky's dress!!!!!!!!!!

[davidthegnome]

16. Thank you

I needed a little laugh.

[sabrina 1]

12. The U.S. is now known as a country that kills and tortures

detainees. I am sure that there will be objections to any country in the European Union allowing the extradition of someone to a country that tortures its detainees and where torture is accepted as a policy. By interfering with the prosecution of torturers and by refusing to prosecute such law breakers themselves, the U.S. must be on the list of countries to which no detainee can be lawfully extradited to.

Sweden has shamed itself and revealed itself to be nothing more than a puppet of the U.S. Government, trumping up charges to get Julian Assange into custody. I am sure they all patted themselves on the back when he went to jail. However, Sweden still has not charged him with any crimes and that is because they cannot.

[glinda]

28. Dead on I am afraid. America is a torturing Country.

[Odin2005]

18. It's a fucking set-up!

:grr:

[RKP5637]

20. Yep, pure and simple! It's a setup!!! n/t

[Iterate]

19. Could this bring down the Swedish government?

As I remember their margin is thin, but I don't have time right now to look up any accounts of popular sentiment.

I mean, really, if they won't assert their own sovereignty, what's the point of calling themselves a nation.

[Hissyspit]

21. Well, getting rid of Rove's pal Reinfeldt could be nothing but a good thing.

[riderinthestorm]

23. I also feel sick. The US complicity in this grows more apparent every day.

Despicable.

[EFerrari]

25. It was probably their idea.

It's sickening to watch this.

[McCamy Taylor]

26. WTF? Why go through Sweden at all if they are just going to send him here?

No way he will be charged with "rape" for not using a condom in the US.

[Name removed]

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[glinda]

29. Yes it was a set up. Yes Assange will probably even be murdered here. There will

be no fair trial because they have selected the Jury, made up the laws, siced the media on him concerning public opinion.
If he is sent here, every one of those Countries are complicit. But this should be of no surprise since they are probably all the way back to Iraq.

[junior college]

30. Release the encryption code already

nt

[defendandprotect]

31. k/r