Swedish court upholds detention order on Assange

[alp227]

Source: AP

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish court on Wednesday upheld its detention order on Julian Assange, reaffirming the legal basis for an international warrant for the WikiLeaks founder which has kept him hiding in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for two years.

Assange's defense team said it would appeal.

Defense lawyer Per Samuelson said they would study the judge's decision in detail and then "write a juicy, toxic appeal" to a higher court.

"Our legal arguments are solid and powerful," Samuelson told The Associated Press. "That they didn't work could be because the judge didn't give herself enough time to think."

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/swedish-court-upholds-detention-order-assange

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More info: http://falkvinge.net/2014/07/16/live-detention-lift-hearings-for-assange-stockholm-district-court/

[Swede Atlanta]

1. I believe Assange would be willing (and was willing)

to travel to Sweden to face these charges IF he could get assurances from Sweden they would not extradite him to the U.S.

Sweden has a decent criminal justice system that provides an accused with reasonable due process. As well were he to be convicted, unlike in the U.S. where someone is potentially thrown away into a hell hole for decades, the Swedish system is about rehabilitation and justice but not revenge.

[ballyhoo]

2. I don't. I believe the Swedes are

being controlled now by the same people that control the US.

[Swede Atlanta]

4. You must not know much about Sweden.......

I believe Assange would be given appropriate due process on the sexual misconduct charges under Swedish law. That is an opinion based on a lot of observation.

I said I believe Assange would be willing to face his charges under Swedish law IF he was assured he would not be extradited to the U.S. That 'assurance' must of course have some force of law. Whatever assurances Assange would be given would have to be believable. Short of that I agree he would just stay where he is.

Trust me the Swedish people are outraged at the Snowden revelations that most of their communications are under NSA review. They are not very happy with the U.S. government or Obama on this one.

[ballyhoo]

5. Apparently not...What I am talking about

encompasses more than the Assange situation. But it is too esoteric to discuss here, and I shouldn't have brought it up. Right now I
I am not concerned with Assange. I am concerned with the Israel-Pal horror and what its final denouement will be. Sorry for entering your thread.

[msanthrope]

9. He's never going to get those assurances, because it would run contrary to the rule of law.

What Mr. Assange might be able to get is an immunity plea....but that of course presumes he's done something wrong. Has he?

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. Sweden can't offer such assurances because they've received no extradition request from the US

Any extradition request would have to be dealt with on its merits after being received.

Also it's completely fucking STUPID to think that Assange would've needed to go to Sweden to be extradited to the US. He was in the UK, at liberty. Easier to extradite him from the UK, if you're going to do it (the UK is the USA's closest ally, and would be ready to comply with such a request for extradition, most likely; why go through Sweden? it makes no sense.)

[conservaphobe]

3. Good.

His punditry about American politics is getting old and tiresome.

The sooner his soapbox is taken away, the better for everyone.

Time for him to face justice in Sweden, as well as the United States.

[alp227]

6. So send him to jail because you don't like his opinion? nt

[conservaphobe]

7. No. Send him to jail for his crimes.

The fact I don't like his opinions makes it sweeter.

[alp227]

8. as opposed to those whose crimes were exposed by Assange & Co.? nt

[Bodhi BloodWave]

13. Do the crimes a person exposes excuse crimes the exposer might have done? nt

[OnyxCollie]

10. Can't you just Look Forward?

The way Obama did with Bush's war crimes (the crimes exposed by Assange.)

Are you willing to give political leaders a pass on war crimes, while punishing the people who bring said crimes to light?

There's a word for people like that, you know.

[navarth]

11. this x 1000. nt

[Nihil]

12. +1 (n/t)