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>Assange has said he would go to Sweden if provided with a diplomatic guarantee that he would not be turned over to the United States[70] but the Swedish foreig

by techrat 12y ago

>Assange has said he would go to Sweden if provided with a diplomatic guarantee that he would not be turned over to the United States[70] but the Swedish foreign ministry stated that Sweden's legislation does not allow any judicial decision like extradition to be predetermined. They could make an exception. They won't.

foldr 12y ago
That's a perfectly reasonable response on Sweden's part, isn't it? They can't predict whether they will or won't receive a credible extradition order from the US in the future. There is, however, no particular indication that the US would try to extradite him from Sweden, or that they would succeed if they tried. As a blogger puts it: > As I understand, Assange wants the Swedish Government to guarantee that it will not grant extradition to the US. The US has not made any request to the Sweden on this matter. In other words, Assange wants the Swedish Government to pledge to use its veto power in relation to a non-existing request and before the Prosecutor-General and the Supreme Court has evaluated this non-existing request. There is nothing in the extradition of criminal offences act that deals with this scenario, but it would depart from established practice. There are some other interesting points made in the post: http://klamberg.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/extradition-of-assange-to-us-via-sweden.html http://klamberg.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/extradition-of-assang... Also here: >By asking for this 'guarantee', Assange is asking the impossible, as he probably knows. Under international law, all extradition requests have to be dealt with on their merits and in accordance with the applicable law; and any final word on an extradition would (quite properly) be with an independent Swedish court, and not the government giving the purported 'guarantee'. http://www.newstatesman.com/david-allen-green/2012/08/legal-myths-about-assange-extradition http://www.newstatesman.com/david-allen-green/2012/08/legal-...

by techrat 12y ago

foldr 12y ago

That's a perfectly reasonable response on Sweden's part, isn't it? They can't predict whether they will or won't receive a credible extradition order from the US in the future. There is, however, no particular indication that the US would try to extradite him from Sweden, or that they would succeed if they tried. As a blogger puts it: > As I understand, Assange wants the Swedish Government to guarantee that it will not grant extradition to the US. The US has not made any request to the Sweden on this matter. In other words, Assange wants the Swedish Government to pledge to use its veto power in relation to a non-existing request and before the Prosecutor-General and the Supreme Court has evaluated this non-existing request. There is nothing in the extradition of criminal offences act that deals with this scenario, but it would depart from established practice. There are some other interesting points made in the post: http://klamberg.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/extradition-of-assange-to-us-via-sweden.html http://klamberg.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/extradition-of-assang... Also here: >By asking for this 'guarantee', Assange is asking the impossible, as he probably knows. Under international law, all extradition requests have to be dealt with on their merits and in accordance with the applicable law; and any final word on an extradition would (quite properly) be with an independent Swedish court, and not the government giving the purported 'guarantee'. http://www.newstatesman.com/david-allen-green/2012/08/legal-myths-about-assange-extradition http://www.newstatesman.com/david-allen-green/2012/08/legal-...