UN rules in favour of Assange

[Snowhobbit]

He was interviewed in Sweden in 2010. He offered opportunities for interview many times and got no answer. The one time the Swedish prosecutor accepted, she cancelled it two days before the interview, supposedly because she couldn't finish the paperwork on time, even though the date was agreed upon months in advance.

It really doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes.

That he was. He is now alas refusing to do any interviews any more for some strange reason... It is as if he was guilty of some kind of crime and has fled justice... Anyway he'll have a lot of long years left of sitting in an embassy, so good for him I guess? Not sure if the embassy or a jail is more preferable in terms of facilities?

...Or believes the americans will jump him in transist.

Which goes back to the insane part.

Swedish law requires the suspect to be interviewed before he can be charged, at no point has there been any other "line" on that point.

In any case, the fact he's cowering in the Ecuadorian Embassy means he's either guilty or insane.

Either way, I think we're all better off with him there.

That depends on how much you want to pay for the police guarding the premise in case Assange were to leave it, but I fully agree with the rest of the post.

I'm southern European.

Apparently, being oblivious of facts is a northern European privilege, and the one I'm happy to grant you exclusive rights to.

Unless your maps look different from our maps Serbia is Eastern. Possibly South Eastern, but very much Eastern. Apparently being willfully ignorant of reality is a common trait over there.

Maybe you have different information. As far as I know, Swedish prosecutor refused to take a statement from Assange for more than 4 years. For the same amount of time, Assange has been calling for an interview in the Ecuadorian embassy. That interview was supposed to take place in July last year, when Ny (the Swedish prosecutor) cancelled two days before it was supposed to take place and made no effort to set a new date.

The statement from the prosecutor


She is basically saying that there's no point in the interview, but she still hasn't charged him, and now the party line is the he can't be charged because there was no interview.

Come on, even someone intellectually challenged could see there's something fishy going on.

It is true that the prosecutor was too passive for a long time. It is also true that Assange called for an interview from the embassy. However now that the prosecution has accepted these terms, Assange has decided that he doesn't want to talk anymore. Take from that what you will.

The statement from the prosecutor does not say that in any way shape or form. He will always have to be interviewed before he can be charged, that is the way things work here. In the meanwhile he is arrested in his absence, all normal parts of legal procedure. I do agree about the intellectually challenged bit though.