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US offers Julian Assange time in Australian prison
- jjgreen 5y agoFull title: US offers Julian Assange time in Australian prison instead of American supermax if he loses London extradition fight
- RosanaAnaDana 5y agoIs it obligatory to put odds ratios on the life expectancy of high profile controversial figures once placed into custody for trial/ extradition to the US? Prison/ custody not proving to be a particularly safe place for those who seem to have annoyed power-brokers in the US.
- pseingatl 5y agoThe offer is meaningless: The US has a legacy of broken promises when it comes to these "assurances." The Sholam Weiss case is probably the most notorious, where the US simply ignored the assurances given to Austria once Weiss was on US soil. Carlos Lehder was promised that he could serve his sentence in Germany, but this similarly was ignored. Italy would not be so fooled. Italy refused the extradition of Pietro Venezia, accused of committing the death-eligible murder of Donald Bonham in Miami in 1997. The US offered "assurances" that the death penalty would not be imposed but Italy did not believe the US. Instead, Miami-Dade prosecutors flew to Italy where the Italian justice system eventually convicted Venezia of the murder. The "assurances" offered to the UK in respect of Assange must be considered in light of this history.