Julian Assange arrested for 'sexual assault'. Are Swedish laws to blame?

[taxman]

Very, very foolish. Just makes things look even worse (being on remand, he should have access to TV, PC etc, yet they're holding him as if he was bloody Kim Philby) and more political than judicial:(.

 

It does seem a bit desperate. He wasn't going anywhere soon either because the judge wanted £200k in cash brought to the court....who has that lying about? And even if they did just think of the security needed to get it through when loads of chancers are lying in wait.

[Fartown]

... the judge wanted £200k in cash brought to the court....who has that lying about? ...

 

I can understand the judge wanting cash. I heard somewhere that Mastercard and Visa don't think much of his credit rating.

[Anna B]

Assange might be better of in Sweden. He is more likely to get a fair hearing there.

 

We have our 'special relationship' with USA to consider, not to mention a one way extradition treaty. We also have the most draconian secrecy laws in the world, and a vested interest in combining forces with the USA against hiom.

[Anna B]

With Jemima Kahn, Bianca Jagger et al on his side, if he hasn't been bailed by morning something very dodgy is going on.

[donkey]

And then a bomb goes off in Stockholm, seemingly planted by a Luton based suicide bomber, who was in Bedfordshire a fortnight ago.

 

Coincidence. Simple, straightforward, common or garden coincidence.

 

Hmmm, yes. Swedish opinion will swing more in favour of 'The War on Terror' now. This will go against Mr Assange.

[andygardener]

Hmmm, yes. Swedish opinion will swing more in favour of 'The War on Terror' now. This will go against Mr Assange.

 

Right, so the shadowy forces have made two swedish lasses fabricate rape claims, then persuaded an iraqi/swede to become radicalised to the point of being ready to blow himself up and then engineer that his suicide bombing is targeted against the capital of the nation the lasses they brainwashed come from but also make him **** it up so there are no actual deaths other than him but in a way that makes the swedes fearfull and thus ready to hand down their maximum sentance to Assange which is loss of sauna priveldges for 4 weeks?

 

Sounds like a load of <REMOVED> to me.

[Lotusflower]

Right, so the shadowy forces have made two swedish lasses fabricate rape claims, then persuaded an iraqi/swede to become radicalised to the point of being ready to blow himself up and then engineer that his suicide bombing is targeted against the capital of the nation the lasses they brainwashed come from but also make him **** it up so there are no actual deaths other than him but in a way that makes the swedes fearfull and thus ready to hand down their maximum sentance to Assange which is loss of sauna priveldges for 4 weeks?

 

Sounds like a load of <REMOVED> to me.

 

Anyone for tennis?

[taxman]

It now transpires that it was the British prosecutors who have appealed against the granting of bail.

 

Sweden's Director of Prosecution, Marianne Ny, said: "The decision was appealed by the British prosecutor. Sweden has no opinion on this and will not intervene with a case handled by the British authorities."

[sccsux]

Freed on bail.

[johncocker]

the most depressing aspect of the wikileaks legal stoush is knowing that every thing will be revealed in a john pilger documentary:D