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Julian Assange sex case: Swedish court upholds warrant

bbc.com

10 pointsWyndsage6 comments

There is no standing extradition order to move Assange from the Sweden to USA.

Swedish court says prosecutors are not correctly handling case if the case is simply about sexual assault.

Which is interesting.

I also remember distinctly the two women involved dropped the charges. Wasn't it a prosecutor from another region who continued the process despite that?

Charges were originally dropped within 24 hours of filling. As the original arrest warrant was written for the incorrect crime "Molestation" instead of "Rape".

Also yes both women admit there was no rape. They were merely inquiring about obtaining HIV tests.

>The woman of whom Mr. Assange is accused of the offence of "lesser rape" (a technical term in Swedish law) sent an SMS to a friend saying that she "did not want to accuse JA [of] anything" and "it was the police who made up the charges". The other woman tweeted in 2013 that she had never been raped. Both women’s testimonies say that they consented to the sex. A senior prosecutor already dismissed the ’rape’ accusation, saying that there were no grounds for accusing Mr. Assange on this basis. But a third prosecutor, lobbied by a politician who was running for attorney general, took over the investigation and resurrected the accusations against Mr. Assange

Yes you are correct.

That quote is not from the article. In fact the BBC article says the exact opposite "two women in Sweden accuse Mr Assange, 43, of sexual assault."

I'm inclined to believe the BBC over an unreferenced quote.

Tangentially, given how often supporters of Assange have mentioned or hypothesized how "obvious" it is that political pressure was brought to bear on these women to make the accusations -

1) how is it that there was sufficient pressure to make that happen, but now there's (supposedly) not - see downstream comment about the BBC vs unreferenced quotes; and 2) I wonder how likely it is that supporters of Assange might have brought their own pressure to bear to attempt to dissuade these women to drop charges, regardless of merit?

There is no standing extradition order to move Assange from the US to Sweden. (Assuming you meant from Sweden to the US, which is the more likely scenario the minute Assange sets foot in the country.)

Next, you'll tell me that Microsoft in no way, shape or form had anything to do with bankrolling SCO!

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