Julian Assange given 14 days to challenge extradition ruling
Source: The Guardian
Julian Assange's fight against extradition to Sweden may stagger on to a second round at the supreme court after he was granted permission to submit fresh arguments.
Despite losing by a majority of five to two, his lawyers have been given 14 days to consider whether to challenge a central point of the judgment on the correct interpretation of international treaties.
The highly unusual legal development came after the supreme court justices decided that a public prosecutor was a "judicial authority" and that therefore Assange's arrest warrant had been lawfully issued.
Assange, who is facing charges of sexual assault and rape in Sweden, was not in court; there was no legal requirement for him to be present. According to his solicitor, Gareth Peirce, he was stuck in central London traffic and never made it to the court in Westminster.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/30/julian-assange-challenge-extradition
lookingfortruth
(263 posts)This is the biggest Bullshit scam.
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tcaudilllg
(1,553 posts)You can argue for the killing of foreign nationals with impunity. Gotta love that 1st amendment.
lookingfortruth
(263 posts)ONE OF WHOM HAS TIES TO AMERICAN COMPANIES claimed they got raped by Assange (It wasn't raped because the Condom Broke!)
When Sweden First tried to bring Extra diction charges against Assange it didn't fly with other prosecutors or others in the Justice system.
This is all a stunt to get Assange to a country that will than allow America to extradite him. They want to punish him for Wikileaks.
This is HUGE case of Countries and Corporate and Military complexes overpowering and hiding the truth.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
radhika
(1,008 posts)Last I heard they had opted out of the case....
lookingfortruth
(263 posts)radhika
(1,008 posts)As a woman, I hate to second-guess another woman's charge of rape or assault. That dismissal has been my gender's ugly saga dealing with patriarchal justice.
But this time - cynical. Both women were his voluntary sex partners. They reported the crime together after each finding out about the other. The charges were once reported as 'sexual surprise' which still has me scratching my head. Is that waking up to find a partner doing something 'surprising' to you?
If Swedish justice is as many of you suggest, I'm sure no one will wish to explore these issues. Just hand him over to the USA, dead or alive.
lookingfortruth
(263 posts)women "felt" the condom break and he didn't pull out soon enough. I have a few friends from Sweden who can't believe the courts are actually going through this and figure the U.S. is pulling the strings big time.
They tried to bring these charges twice before and it deflated under public eye.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)lookingfortruth
(263 posts)Sweden drops Assange rape charge (Aug 2010)
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2010/08/2010821153010551757.html
http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/20773/
The full story of the rape charges against Julian Assange of Wikileaks, a possible covert op
(I've seen better articles from better sources but can't find them in this search.)
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/julian_assange/
Report Claims Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Secretly Indicted In U.S.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)the victims.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)I don't see what the problem is here. Why is Assamge afraid of the Swedish justice system?
shcrane71
(1,721 posts)would be open to extraditing Assange to the US.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)The accused are often kept incommunicado even from counsel.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)It's up to you, of course, but if you don't see a problem with extradition to Sweden, you probably weren't following those news stories last year.