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You know the death penalty is illegal in EU (etc.)? In fact, no EU/Council of Europe country can extradite someone for a crime where death penalty is an option.
by rmc 12y ago
You know the death penalty is illegal in EU (etc.)? In fact, no EU/Council of Europe country can extradite someone for a crime where death penalty is an option.
If the USA were to declare he is wanted only for a crime that carries the death penalty, it would be great for Assange. He could walk around the EU without any risk of extradition.
- vidarh 12y agoThis would be more convincing if Sweden had not been caught out illegally cooperating with CIA renditions - in one instance handing two Egyptian political asylum seekers over to CIA, knowing they'd be handed over to Mubarak for torture. They insisted it had stopped. Only Wikileaks documents revealed the US ambassador was called in years later because Swedish military intelligence had just caught CIA, assisted by Swedish ground crew, carrying out further illegal rendition flights via Swedish airports. I don't that's a likely scenario for Assange - he's too well known, and Europe and Sweden would "have to" cause a massive stink if he was illegally abducted that way - it'd be a diplomatic nightmare. But in general, if concerned about being handed over to the US, Sweden would be pretty low on the list of countries I'd want to go to.
- rmc 12y agoAs opposed to the UK, which is a founding member of NATO and joined the USA in invading Iraq?