Well - he will certainly be charged in the UK for breach of bail conditions if he steps out of that embassy.
Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
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Re: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
#52It should be noted that the prosecutor had three options:
1: Drop the charges.
2: Drop the arrest order but continue the investigation. To do so require a plan which would progress the investigation.
3: Charge Assange with rape, arguing that the evidence collected so far is enough for a case.
And we got the first option, and thus we can conclude that the prosecutor don't have enough evidence to go to court and have no plans on how to further the investigation.
Re: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
#53Not sure where this leaves him. He is wanted by UK police for skipping bail. Presumably his US concerns still complicate his living arrangements for now.
Since he skipped bail for something which is now dropped, doesn't that move back up and nullify his wanted status as well?
Or is there a process that he could now start, like "remove my wanted status because there is no point now", and that would then get decided by some organization?
Re: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
#54Is there a good article -- does even anyone know? -- on how did Wikileaks turn from a whistleblower into a mouthpiece of the Kremlin? Edit: some examples: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/... https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/03/...
Assange agenda was always anti-Americanism at expense of everyone else, so he just stayed true to himself. Many of his then liberal supporters were turning a blind eye to this, until it spectacularly bit them in the ass.
Re: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
#55Is there a good article -- does even anyone know? -- on how did Wikileaks turn from a whistleblower into a mouthpiece of the Kremlin? Edit: some examples: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/... https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/03/...
Is there any reason for you to believe that Wikileaks is "a mouthpiece of the Kremlin"?
Re: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
#56Five years living in a single room, not able to leave or walk outside. Millions of pounds/dollars spent enforcing the same. A gigantic show of idiocy from both sides.
In essence he is in prison for 5 years.
Re: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
#57The UK police will arrest him for obstruction of justice the moment he tries to leave the wardrobe he's hiding in. He'd probably be convicted, which carries a maximum sentence of [EDIT] 1 year in prison.
They just reported on the news (ABC, aussie) that the UK police are seeking to arrest him for skipping bail.
Re: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
#58It should be noted that the prosecutor had three options: 1: Drop the charges. 2: Drop the arrest order but continue the investigation. To do so require a plan which would progress the investigation. 3: Charge Assange with rape, arguing that the evidence collected so far is enough for a case. And we got the first option, and thus we can conclude that the prosecutor don't have enough evidence to go to court and have n…
Well if you cannot question the accused, it sort of limits what evidence you can collect...
Re: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
#59Five years living in a single room, not able to leave or walk outside. Millions of pounds/dollars spent enforcing the same. A gigantic show of idiocy from both sides.
Assange was basically, from his POV, defending his future freedom and poasibly his life, and still is. Very likely, he was right. How is Assange showing "idiocy" here? Also, from the perspective of a government, any government, 10 million is not even a rounding error of a rounding error in the defense budget. The intimidation might have stopped the forming of another Wikileaks or the rise of a 2nd assange. From this…
> Assange was basically, from his POV, defending his future freedom and poasibly his life, and still is.
And I suspect, his reputation/good name. If he'd gone to trial, and lost, he'd be called a "convicted rapist" for the rest of his life.
Re: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
#60Five years living in a single room, not able to leave or walk outside. Millions of pounds/dollars spent enforcing the same. A gigantic show of idiocy from both sides.
All he had to do was answer some questions to the Swedish prosecutor.
I still fail to understand why Sweden, NOT a NATO member, would have been more dangerous than the UK. Also, Sweden is not exactly the worst place in the world to spend prison time (which was only the worst case scenario.)
Answer the questions, clarify everything, and walk free. He chose himself not to answer. He chose to dump all the rich people who paid for his bail.
He was always able to leave the embassy to go to Sweden for an interview.