Earlier quoted context omitted.
His rape victims.
This has been disproven, so: citation needed, please...
No it hasn't, there hasn't been a trial. That's kinda the whole point of him being in the embassy.
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
> possibly the death sentence. What? Is there any reasonable source claiming that's remotely possible?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/11/assange_death_penal... Penalties have gone pretty sideways in the US when it comes to being associated with terrorism, and what qualifies as terrorism extremely broad and nebulous.
An EU country cannot fulfil an extradition if there's a chance of the death penalty.
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#73Bootlicker
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#74I still can't believe he has been there for 7 years.
If nothing else, his persistence has been fairly impressive. I'm still bitter that he became so thoroughly partisan, though. Especially since his organization has or had the motto: "to publish fact-based stories without fear or favour".
He became something else as well. Maybe he always was, maybe he turned into a Russian pawn but by now there seems to be a huge amount of suspicious things pointing him working with Russia.
This lists like six such things https://www.salon.com/2017/01/07/donald-trump-julian-assange...
This one https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/303172-pus... is particularly damaging because one of the arguments of the "Wikileaks is not a Russian org" is that it sympathetizes and works with Pussy Riot...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/wikileaks-inside-the-farage-as...
https://gizmodo.com/assange-turned-down-dirt-on-russia-stron...
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#75Bootlicker
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#76Did I rape you? Sorry about that
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
This has been disproven, so: citation needed, please...
No it hasn't, there hasn't been a trial. That's kinda the whole point of him being in the embassy.
Well, the recent immediate point of him being in the trial is avoiding the British bail jumping charges from his flight to the embassy to evade the extradition on the rape charges; the extradition is no longer active.
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#78Ok bootlicker
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/11/assange_death_penal... Penalties have gone pretty sideways in the US when it comes to being associated with terrorism, and what qualifies as terrorism extremely broad and nebulous.
An EU country cannot fulfil an extradition if there's a chance of the death penalty.
My impression of the question is if there's a credible threat of death penalty, not if the EU would extradite should there be one.
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#80His development from a someone with a idea that could have made whistle blowing a trend, to a FSB asset and annoying twitter troll is really...unfortunate. I wonder what his right wing followers in the US will say when US agents pick him up in the UK.
The only unfortunate thing is how many people turned on him when he started exposing people who they liked. Turns out that all the people who I thought were on the side of truth in the Bush years were just on the side of Democrats.
The guy considered himself some kind of anarchist once. I remember some big speech he had about his independence etc. Now after becoming a cheap tool for the FSB he turned into just another right-wing conspiracy troll on twitter and it's not just "US Democrats" who don't bother about him and his platform anymore. He's just not trustworthy. His platform is not trustworthy. His independence is broken. So why should Democrats side with him?