Julian Assange arrest warrant upheld by Swedish court

Shame on Sweden.

Julian Assange is living his own reality show gone wrong. It was never about the truth, it was always about him. He's no Ed Snowdon.

Time to man up and face your accusations like everyone else Jules. Even if you wait till 2020 the British will still nab ya for jumping bail.

Enjoy....

Oh, Pashaw! Everyone knows Swedish Courts are totally corrupt!

:)

yeah, the Obama administration is gonna to end soon and there is no reason the next US president is an unreasonable one.

Good. Assange is the worst kind of narcissist.

Shame on Sweden

Why? Rape is a pretty serious allegation. Should Sweden just let it pass just because Assange sees himself as some kind of celebrity?

If Sweden just wanted to question Assange, any of the locations that have been suggested would have been agreed to.

What happens if they ask him questions then decide there is enough evidence to proceed?

This is the eighth time the European arrest warrant has been tested in a Swedish court. All of the rulings have gone against him.

The alledged rapist Assange can stay holed up in his Ecuadoran hovel until the Swedish statutes of limitations runs out on the charges against him. That would be another 4 or 5 years. He will then be free to molest other women, if any other country will have him. Maybe Australia will take him back? Maybe not?

The alledged rapist Assange can stay holed up in his Ecuadoran hovel until the Swedish statutes of limitations runs out on the charges against him. That would be another 4 or 5 years. He will then be free to molest other women,

Nope, he is still wanted in Britain for jumping bail, and there is no statute of limitations in Britain. He can stay there for another 50 years and he will still be subject to arrest on leaving.

This guy is the epitome of the word hypocrite. He endlessly pontificates about exposing wrongdoing by governments AND individuals. But when it comes to him, it's a different story.

This could be easily resolved if Sweden would just commit to not deporting him to America. As long as they don't commit to that, their motives are suspect. If they truly wanted justice for the women, they would make this commitment, in the order of expediting justice. As long as people believe Sweden will deport Assange to America, they will support him.

Good points wipeout. The real charge is sex without a condom - which incredibly amounts to rape in Sweden. You can be sure that when WikiLeaks spread the files on Iraq and Afghanistan that the CIA went to Sweden and anywhere else he had been and wanted to talk to every single person he had an interaction with. And from this they managed to drag up this bogus charge.

Strangerland: This could be easily resolved if Sweden would just commit to not deporting him to America. As long as they don't commit to that, their motives are suspect.

Other criminals could demand that they will answer questions about crime A as long as the police guarantee they won't investigate something else they are accused of. I don't see how that can work as a policy.

As long as people believe Sweden will deport Assange to America, they will support him.

Then when does it end? What if he's accused of other crimes? He can say that he might be extradited to the US so he shouldn't have to meet with police about....anything, right? If rape isn't a serious enough crime then we can assume nothing other than murder would get him to meet with police, and even then he could say he won't do it and get support. His position officially makes him above the law.

wipeout: I can see why he would have the feeling that he's been framed

If they wanted to frame him they could have broken into his apartment and dropped a pound of cocaine on his kitchen table, then called the cops. You'd have to be pretty daft to think conspirators came up with some fuzzy rape allegation with low odds of conviction.

Superlib, I agree with you in principle, but I'm talking the reality of investigating these rapes. Nothing is happening now, and won't as long as Assange sits in the embassy. Sweden should be more concerned with investigating crimes against its own people, rather than following the American agenda, which has nothing to do with Sweden. If they truly cared about their people they would commit to not exraditing Assange to the US. The longer they refuse to do so, the longer their own citizens are denied justice.

In a black and white world, I'd agree with what you said. In a grey world, I think Sweden needs to think about their own laws and citizens.

Strangerland SEP. 17, 2016 - 01:18PM JST If they truly cared about their people they would commit to not exraditing Assange to the US. The longer they refuse to do so, the longer their own citizens are denied justice.

Assange could be "snatched" and spirited away to the US, regardless of the extradition treaty. There are no charges against him in the US, although he fears he could be put on trial for espionage.

Boycott all Swedish brands. Volvo, meatballs, Ikea. The girls can stay though.

2020 is not that far away = I would legally wait it out and continue using WikiLeaks to attack the globalist agenda. Could petition the Swedish courts with strong internet/public petitions.

Strangerland: If they truly cared about their people they would commit to not exraditing Assange to the US.

But if they truly cared about the rule of law they wouldn't pick and choose certain people who have to follow and certain people who don't. But I know it's not black and white, as you said. Lots of moving pieces.

In reality I just don't like the guy. I've always made a distinction between him and Snowden because at least Snowden focused on specific issues and released information about that issue. Assange seems to intentionally create collateral damage with his releases and I wish his supporters would reign in on him for that. If the leader of country A calls the leader of country B a jerk behind closed doors I don't see any crime that's being committed, the information is being released for the sole purpose of humiliation. And while I don't know what Assange is thinking, he strikes me as a guy who does it just because he gets off on exposing powerful people, even if they aren't breaking laws, then hides under some shield while claiming he is doing the world a service.

He should vet his stuff more, remove names more, and stop releasing things that have nothing to do with crimes that he claims he is trying to expose. I know you question the motives of the US government, and you have every right to do that, but I also question his motives. He's reckless, and I think the more reckless he is the more fame he enjoys.

'd have to be pretty daft to believe that the UK authorities actually care about a couple of rapes in Sweden or about enforcing a European Arrest Warrant so deeply that they'd put a 24-hour guard on the Ecuadoran embassy in London for four years.

Are you saying that the UK, or any other country, shouldn't exercise arrest warrants for those wanted in other countries? Shouldn't care about crimes that may have been committed elsewhere? Do you think the UK should repeal the law that makes it a crime to go to another country to abuse children - why should they care about a couple of rapes in Thailand, eh? Assange's apologists are just as culpable as he is.

Julian Assange is coward. He is rapist.

In reality I just don't like the guy. I've always made a distinction between him and Snowden because at least Snowden focused on specific issues and released information about that issue. Assange seems to intentionally create collateral damage with his releases and I wish his supporters would reign in on him for that. If the leader of country A calls the leader of country B a jerk behind closed doors I don't see any crime that's being committed, the information is being released for the sole purpose of humiliation.

I agree with you on your verdict of Assange. I don't like the guy either.

But, either way it's the American agenda, not Sweden. Sweden should be willing to help the American agenda if it doesn't conflict with their own, but their own should take priority. In this situation, support of the American agenda is preventing justice for their own people. For something like releasing sensitive information, that's just not a reasonable stance. If he were an international terrorist, I would feel differently. But he's just some moron who has no filter about what's reasonable to release, and what isn't.