The Obscure U.N. Body Behind the Ridiculous Claim Assange Is Arbitrarily Detain

[struggle4progress]

BY ELIAS GROLL
FEBRUARY 5, 2016 - 4:20 PM

... Friday’s finding represents the latest strange turn in Assange’s five-year effort to avoid Swedish prosecutor, and the panel’s findings left legal experts scratching their heads and national governments outraged. UK Foreign Minister Philip Hammond called the report “a frankly ridiculous finding, and we reject it.” A government spokesperson said in an email the UK plans to formally challenge the report.

Mr. Assange has chosen, voluntarily, to stay at the Ecuadorean embassy and Swedish authorities have no control over his decision to stay there. “Mr. Assange is free to leave the Embassy at any point,” Anders Rönquist, the director-general for legal affairs at the Swedish Foreign Ministry, said in a statement. “Thus, he is not being deprived of his liberty there due to any decision or action taken by the Swedish authorities ...

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/05/the-obscure-u-n-body-behind-the-ridiculous-claim-assange-is-arbitrarily-detained/

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. "Obscure U.N. Body". Perfect summation.

[nichomachus]

2. He's free to leave any time -- and be murdered by the CIA. His choice.

[OnyxCollie]

3. The anti-Assange smear machine rears its ugly head yet again.

All Assange, all the time.