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What's interesting to note is that Sweden doesn't extradite for political crimes. So, legally, there's nothing that Assange has to worry about. Honestly, the mo
by MemorableZebra 14y ago
What's interesting to note is that Sweden doesn't extradite for political crimes. So, legally, there's nothing that Assange has to worry about. Honestly, the more I looked at it the more I started to wonder if he was just being paranoid.
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- vidarh 14y agoSweden has in the past illegally handed political asylum seekers over to the CIA without extradition requests, knowing these people would be handed back to the regime they escaped from, to be tortured. Later Wikileaks released documents that showed that years after this had supposedly been stopped, Swedish military intelligence uncovered that CIA rendition flights were still ongoing, with the cooperation of Swedish airport staff. So there might not be much for Assange to worry about legally, but that doesn't say much. He might very well be paranoid, but Sweden hasn't exactly acted in a way that does anything to give someone in his position reasons to trust they'll even follow their own laws.