On 07/07/2021 17:31, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
On 07/07/2021 16:58, David Barrett wrote:
It wasn't dropped:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48253343 <https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48253343>
I didn't say it was, but
Yes, the rape investigation was, finally, dropped on 19 Nov 2019, 6 months after it was reopened in May 2019 as per your link. I believe it can't be reopened again without major hassles in Sweden.
Correction - it can't be reopened at all, because the Swedish statute of limitations ran out in Aug 2020. Peter f
Assange wasn't ever detained for more than a few hours on the rape allegations - he got bail, which he famously skipped.
Then embassy, arrested again, was sentenced to imprisonment for 50 weeks for breaking bail which sentence he has served, and he is now detained but not imprisoned pending appeal on the US extradition charges.
Peter Fairbrother
They did temporarily while he was hiding in the embassy (again, he was hiding from Sweden, not the US -- Obama didn't try to arrest him, Sweden did, and Assange ran), but now that he's out of hiding, it's reopened.
David
On Wed, Jul 7, 2021, 2:31 AM Peter Fairbrother <peter@tsto.co.uk <mailto:peter@tsto.co.uk>> wrote:
On 07/07/2021 09:27, David Barrett wrote:
> (Though Assange is actually imprisoned in the UK for skipping bail by > hiding out in the Ecuadorian embassy for years to avoid rape charges -- > which is a completely different matter that still needs to be settled.)
Perhaps so in actuality, but in law he has already served his sentence for breaking bail.
At present he is detained pending an appeal by the US against the refusal of his extradition. Unsurprisingly he is considered a flight risk, and has been refused bail.
Peter Fairbrother