Most charges against Wikileaks founder to expire
Source: Deutsche Welle
Most charges against Wikileaks founder to expire
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been living inside Ecuador's London embassy since 2012 to avoid extradition. The Australian has been wanted by Sweden on criminal charges, most of which are set to expire.
Date 12.08.2015
Swedish prosecutors are to drop three allegations of sexual offences against 44-year-old Julian Assange because of the five-year statute of limitations, a prosecution spokeswoman said Wednesday.
The Australian, who denies any wrongdoing, has long said he fears Sweden may extradite him to the United States, where he could face trial over Wikileaks' publication of huge amounts of leaked classified US military and diplomatic documents.
Under diplomatic protection
Assange - who escaped a Swedish arrest warrant by taking refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London in 2012 - is wanted on two allegations of sexual molestation and one of unlawful coercion, which expire by August 18 unless he is formally charged. A fourth allegation of rape is valid until 2020.
He denies the charges and says the criminal cases are politically motivated.
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Thanks for reminding people!
The Swedish legal system is not the same as the US legal system. The Swedes do a formal interview before they arrest someone. In the US, we arrest them and then talk to them.
If the Swedes had the US legal system, they would not just be trying to "talk" to him. They'd be trying to slap the cuffs on. But their system is different from ours.
Nope. The meeting was called off when Assange and the Ecuadorians insisted that the Swedes give up their right to arrest him. Since this interview is the formality before arresting him, that makes the interview pointless.
Because the UK, our closest ally with a nearly identical legal system, would not extradite Assange to the US if we asked.
Again, the Swedes do not use the US legal system. This "questioning" is a formality before arrest. The investigation is at the point where they would arrest Assange if Sweden used the US legal system.
Who says so? The UK's high court. Which you are claiming would never, ever, ever extradite Assange to the US.
No, the "plot" is to make people like you believe he is being persecuted instead of being a rapist.
Assange hasn't broken any US laws. The federal law about leaking classified information makes it illegal to sell the information, or to give it to a foreign country. Assange didn't sell it, and he gave it to "everyone".
That's why Ellsberg's prosecution imploded. He had not actually committed a crime. So the FBi and others flailed about trying to find something, until the judge cut them off.
But let's study up on what Assange has done. Wikileaks has been crippled by Assange's unwillingness to let anyone else run it while he's in the embassy. And Assange did not actually start Wikileaks. He was brought on to be a spokesman, and later pushed aside the people who actually started it in order to declare himself the guy behind Wikileaks.
Then there's the Russia problem. Assange claimed he had a big pile of documents from Russia that he was going to leak. But he is so dedicated to telling the truth and exposing lies that he never released the Russian documents. Probably because Russia has a history of actually killing people who do that.
Assage is a narcissist who raped at least one woman. The fact that you like some of the other things that were done in Assange's name does not erase those events.
But he's got that "No!" thing down to a science. 
He was SET up! I am a professional in the violence against women field and I would be the first to want justice if these allegations were true. I researched the case they tried to create against him it was obvious these two women were coerced by the Swedish government (for USA) to make these rape allegations against him! One bragged about being with him and allowed him stay at her place after the said rape, and even hosted a party get together for him. Not using a condom during consensual sex is rape. YES, Assange is a typical male jerk using his celebrity status to get laid and he took advantage of these little groupies but that's it!
Wikileaks offers a place of transparency and insight of our world wide oligarchy governments that are crushing the poor, middle class through ongoing WARS while destroying Mother Earth. 
It just seemed a little creepy to me. Probably nothing. 
I want to afford everyone, one of the foundations of Western Legal Justice called : Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat ;
(the burden of proof is on him who declares, not on him who denies). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence
Faced with a rigged system that cherry picks who this concept applies to and who it doesn't is exactly why Assange had to seek asylum, he embarrassed the most powerful enemies in the world (CIA/MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX) with the truth on Wikileaks
and they have all the resources and power in the world to find any dirt on him they can... and you refuse to even consider the possibility this rape claim may be a 100% made up (and she might even be in on it) ? They don't want justice , they want REVENGE!
Maybe if he were a nobody this wouldn't reek so bad of a set up. How dare he have the foresight to know when he's gonna get gamed if he plays it their way.....right ? It's the same Reason Ed Snowden hasn't come home, and Chelsea Manning is in prison.
Maybe that's asking to much, so people like you just want still just want to burn the witch. So Until you are prosecutor with damning evidence you should reserve your judgement until the facts are brought to the surface to for all to see. In the mean time on behalf of the principles of modern legal justice you can shut your overzealous, reactionary face. 
You are worth an IGNORE then for sure... 
