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I don't think law, justice or even diplomacy are very relevant for most of this case. 1900 days in isolation (human rights violation), falsly accused of rape w

I don't think law, justice or even diplomacy are very relevant for most of this case. 1900 days in isolation (human rights violation), falsly accused of rape with the goal to extradite to the US, jailed outside of the US on behalf of the US (but not officially), and just the simple fact that a journalist gets jail time for exposing war crimes. Yeah, this has nothing to do with law or justice. This is about a handful of people above the law trying to save their *sses. Anything could happen at this point. Reminds me of when a foreign diplomatic aircraft (Equador) was forced to land in a foreign country (France), because the US thought Snowden might be on board. Remind me of the relevant law that allows for this please? lol

sofixa 2y ago
> 1900 days in isolation (human rights violation) Call it what it is, torture.
youngtaff 2y ago
> falsly accused of rape with the goal to extradite to the US, Where’s the evidence that he was falsely accused?
- mandmandam 2y ago
  The accusers withdrew their testimony, Swedish prosecutors were caught falsifying and destroying documents, and the case was withdrawn due to lack of evidence. I'd say that you could have found all this out yourself with Google, but you didn't even need to. All this info has already been linked in these comments.
  - youngtaff 2y ago
    You know accusers in sexual assault allegations often withdraw their testimony due to the pressures of the case – especially in this case where the women were threatened, smeared and accused of being honeypots etc? Most of the links in these comments aren't authoritative in anyway
  - tuna74 2y ago
    The above statements are false. The case was withdrawn due to the time it took to get to trial, then the charges are dropped (statue of limitations).
    - mandmandam 2y ago
      > The case was withdrawn due to the time it took to get to trial ... Which weakens the oral evidence. The only evidence they had; because there was no DNA found on the condom submitted as evidence. https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian-assange-b252ffdcb768 https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian... > There were never any formal criminal charges, and the Swedish Prosecution Authority’s investigation into Assange was dropped in November 2019 due to a lack of evidence. https://rsf.org/en/rsf-dispels-common-misconceptions-case-against-julian-assange https://rsf.org/en/rsf-dispels-common-misconceptions-case-ag...
pelorat 2y ago
He's not a journalist, he is bought and paid for by FSB and the Russian regime.
- Applejinx 2y ago
  This. My hope is he had valuable information to give up about his former operators that was worth the plea deal, which is very possible as he's far from the only one. Let an old spy go off and retire, he can't work anymore anyhow.
- bboygravity 2y ago
  I don't buy that for a second. Example: Gerhard Schröder was also very obviously bought by Russians. He never went to jail nor was he hunted down. Assange also did publish actual literal war crimes committed by the US. Not sure how you can just casually ignore that fact? There's more to this.

sofixa 2y ago

> 1900 days in isolation (human rights violation) Call it what it is, torture.

youngtaff 2y ago

> falsly accused of rape with the goal to extradite to the US, Where’s the evidence that he was falsely accused?

mandmandam 2y ago
The accusers withdrew their testimony, Swedish prosecutors were caught falsifying and destroying documents, and the case was withdrawn due to lack of evidence. I'd say that you could have found all this out yourself with Google, but you didn't even need to. All this info has already been linked in these comments.
- youngtaff 2y ago
  You know accusers in sexual assault allegations often withdraw their testimony due to the pressures of the case – especially in this case where the women were threatened, smeared and accused of being honeypots etc? Most of the links in these comments aren't authoritative in anyway
- tuna74 2y ago
  The above statements are false. The case was withdrawn due to the time it took to get to trial, then the charges are dropped (statue of limitations).
  - mandmandam 2y ago
    > The case was withdrawn due to the time it took to get to trial ... Which weakens the oral evidence. The only evidence they had; because there was no DNA found on the condom submitted as evidence. https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian-assange-b252ffdcb768 https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian... > There were never any formal criminal charges, and the Swedish Prosecution Authority’s investigation into Assange was dropped in November 2019 due to a lack of evidence. https://rsf.org/en/rsf-dispels-common-misconceptions-case-against-julian-assange https://rsf.org/en/rsf-dispels-common-misconceptions-case-ag...

pelorat 2y ago

He's not a journalist, he is bought and paid for by FSB and the Russian regime.

Applejinx 2y ago
This. My hope is he had valuable information to give up about his former operators that was worth the plea deal, which is very possible as he's far from the only one. Let an old spy go off and retire, he can't work anymore anyhow.
bboygravity 2y ago
I don't buy that for a second. Example: Gerhard Schröder was also very obviously bought by Russians. He never went to jail nor was he hunted down. Assange also did publish actual literal war crimes committed by the US. Not sure how you can just casually ignore that fact? There's more to this.