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Julian Assange arrested after Ecuador withdraw asylum

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  • #812
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,896 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122315966#Comment_122315966

    Have you a link to prove that? They could have interviewed him when he was in prison.



  • #813
    deirdremf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,929 ✭✭✭deirdremf


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122310407#Comment_122310407

    It may have been "convenient" - but how was it his fault that the Swedes didn't charge him while he was on their patch? If they had sufficiently incriminating evidence surely they could have got a warrant to arrest him and so ensure that he faced the music.

    In the absence of such evidence was he not as free to come and go as you or me?



  • #814
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,449 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122316083#Comment_122316083

    They could have, but there would have been no benefit to it.

    There was an attempt to interview him in the Ecuadorian embassy but the Swedes were not permitted by the Ecuadorians to ask any questions, the overall process in effect was on hold until the Ecuadorians finally kicked him out in April 2019. In May 2019, the Swedes re-opened the case, and stated the intent to extradite after the completion of the sentence imposed by the UK for bail jumping. Since the statute of limitations for the one remaining potential charge was good until Dec 2020, this was a viable course of action which gave time for the Swedish prosecutors to work on the case and the interview could happen in Sweden as originally intended. Later that year, however, they concluded that after the passage of time, evidentiary standards likely would not be met and so dropped it, making any interview redundant.

    This is all perfectly public knowledge which I am surprised you are not aware of.



  • #815
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,896 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122316244#Comment_122316244

    Its crap because there is no statute of limitations on a rape charge. And time doesn't affect the evidence in a rape case either.



  • #816
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,449 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Apparently there is in Swedish law for the degree of assault in question. You disagree, take it up with the Swedes.



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