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By Gwynne Dyer - Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is a free man at last after spending almost all of the past 14 years in jail or other forms of confinement. He has just arrived home in Australia to be greeted by his family, including two young sons who have never seen him except in Belmarsh Prison in London. But it is the bad guys who won. Read full article

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‘Washington got the Swedish courts to demand Assange’s extradition from the United Kingdom on two deeply implausible rape charges, apparently believing that Sweden would then send him to the US.’

Simply not in the real world, clearly hasn’t ever been to Sweden, or even knows any Swedes.

‘At this point he was arrested in Britain – but Sweden never carried through, and eventually dropped the charges.’

Complete rubbish, the Swedes dropped the case because the statute of limitations ran out while he was hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy.

No US extradition request was made until after he had left the Ecuadorian embassy, either to the UK or Sweden.

He was then arrested for breach of bail, still a criminal offence whether the original charges still stand or not, you don’t get to do that for free.

He then spent the next five years fighting extradition from Belmarsh prison as he wasn’t going to get bail again, having already having skipped bail for another extradition warrant.

His problems were entirely self-inflicted up to the point the US actually issued an extradition warrant for him, after he had left the Ecuadorian embassy and mostly self-inflicted after that.

I suppose the US authorities didn’t have to actually do anything up until then, he was doing fine all by himself.

Question is, where was the justice for the Swedish women in all this? Surely their complaints deserve more than to be just dismissed as ‘deeply implausible’, with no evidence whatsoever presented to that effect?
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