UN rules in favour of Assange

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 02-05-2016, 23:08

The arrest warrant is valid, he's using his political cover to avoid a rape accusation - if he were truly afraid of being extradited to the US he would never have entered the UK, our extradition treaty is far less likely to protect him than Sweden's.

I've seen nothing in the British press to say the ruling is binding, but the European Arrest Warrant certainly IS.

Assange is waiting out the Statute of Limitations - he only has to wait another year and the charges will have to be dropped, then he'll walk out of the Embassy to applause from his Sycophants, get on a blame to the Caribbean or somewhere and in a few decades a confidante will come forward confirming it was all true and he was a nasty sex pest.

**lars573** · 02-05-2016, 23:40

Or that these women were on the US governments payroll.

**Montmorency** · 02-06-2016, 00:34

Or that Julian Assange is on the US government's payroll.

**lars573** · 02-06-2016, 06:44

Or some combo of all three.

**Fragony** · 02-06-2016, 08:05

I have no idea, how could I

**Snowhobbit** · 02-06-2016, 10:23

It will be fun to read the report, I hear the dissenting opinion is truly something.

A little by the by, the charges won't be dropped until 2020, so he is about halfway through his waiting inside an embassy. And indeed we could not extradite him to the US, we have to return him to the UK when we are done with him. He is trapped by his own sense of paranoia. @Sarmatian I don't think you understand what it takes for something to be legally binding.