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Julian Assange

Trump has set him free ..

bobby osborne ● 2120d12 Comments

Does that mean we can deport him to Australia, to join the other convicts ?

Richard Greenhough ● 2120d

Whatever you think of him as an individual - and before you drag the Labour party into this Richard - I'd say he's not a very likeable person, but leaving that aside we will always need people who are prepared to shine light into murky corners. Just because the Americans have the hump with him, I think we made the right decision for possibly the wrong reasons.

Vanessa Smith ● 2120d

You mean Assange was involved with the Labour Party, Vanessa ? Who knew ?

Richard Greenhough ● 2120d

He originally took refuge in the embassy in the first place over sex alligations in Sweden."In 2010, a Swedish woman initially referred to in the press as Miss A said that Assange had tampered with a condom during sex with her on a visit to Stockholm, essentially forcing her to have unprotected sex. She has since spoken publicly under her name, Anna Ardin. Another woman, referred to as Miss W, said that during the same visit, Assange had penetrated her without a condom while she was sleeping""Assange denied the allegations, but a court in England, where he lived at the time, ruled that he should be extradited to Sweden to face investigation. So he sought political asylum in London’s Ecuadorian Embassy. Eager to bolster its reputation as a defender of free speech (and probably to make things inconvenient for the US, with whom it was feuding), Ecuador granted Assange’s request, and he remained in the embassy until this week" The rest came as part of his timeline. Not sure if the request that Assange be extradited to Sweden has passed or will be made again. Most likely got knowhere to run to this time.

Julian Pavey ● 2120d

Trumps pardon will be blocked.U.K. will detain Julian (Assange not Pavey)for his own safety under the Coronavirus act 2020 and he will probably test positive and have to self isolate until the curve is flattened..

bobby osborne ● 2120d

'You mean Assange was involved with the Labour Party, Vanessa ? Who knew ?'What an idiot you really are, sad and boring.

Vanessa Smith ● 2120d

Sense of humour gone astray, Vanessa ?

Richard Greenhough ● 2120d

"Assange had penetrated her without a condom while she was sleeping"? Seriously?

Brian Coyle ● 2119d

Well Brian - that's the horrid hearsay isn't it? Which means it is both true and it isn't true for those with itchy or tingling ears. The present situation, until facing a judge (which I thought had been dropped on the Swedish rape accusations), as we know is that it's more erring toward not to be true than anyone tries against this to say it definitely is true that Julian Assange is a rapist. No he isn't and he didn't do it is is the justice of it until a judge and jury says otherwise which is unlikely. Isn't it?

Bobbie Carnegie ● 2119d

"Seriously"? Do you think the scenario's improbable, or there's nothing illegal about the act? In any case, it's a moot point, now that Swedish prosecutors have dropped the case.

Robert Fish ● 2119d

Was she drugged? otherwise I’d say it’s impossible not to wake someone very quickly in those circumstances

Maggie Dodge ● 2118d

From 2017:"Swedish prosecutors have dropped their preliminary investigation into an allegation of rape against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, bringing an end to a seven-year legal standoff.The decision was taken after prosecutors concluded that “at this point, all possibilities to conduct the investigation are exhausted”, Sweden’s director of public prosecutions, Marianne Ny, said on Friday.“In order to proceed with the case, Julian Assange would have to be formally notified of the criminal suspicions against him. We cannot expect to receive assistance from Ecuador regarding this. Therefore the investigation is discontinued.Separate allegations of sexual assault, made by a second Swedish woman, were dropped by Swedish authorities in 2015 after the statute of limitations expired."However, the Prosecutor noted that: “If he, at a later date, makes himself available, I will be able to decide to resume the investigation immediately.”https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/19/swedish-prosecutors-drop-julian-assange-investigationWhen he subsequently left the Embassy, Sweden revisited the case in 2019, as follows:Swedish authorities have discontinued an investigation into a rape allegation against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, after a review of the evidence.The deputy chief prosecutor, Eva-Marie Persson, said the complainant’s evidence was deemed credible and reliable, but that after nearly a decade, witnesses’ memories had faded.“After conducting a comprehensive assessment of what has emerged during the course of the preliminary investigation I then make the assessment that the evidence is not strong enough to form the basis for filing an indictment,” Persson said.https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/nov/19/sweden-drops-julian-assange-investigation

Richard Cathcart ● 2118d