Assange's Prosecution

[Peter Fairbrother]

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

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> 
> 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
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>>
>> 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 at tsto.co.uk 
>> <mailto:peter at tsto.co.uk>> wrote:
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>>     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
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