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Julian Assange: US extradition bid gets a legal boost

by polar on 8/11/21, 2:11 PM with 23 comments

  • by vidarh on 8/11/21, 3:40 PM

    It's fascinating that the US now claims a sentence would likely be between 4 and 6 years and still considers it worthwhile to put in this level of effort for a conviction.

    Also, if they don't think there's a justification for a longer sentence, surely guarantees could be offered that they won't seek a longer sentence, and this might go some way to reduce the courts concern over the suicide risk.

  • by sschueller on 8/11/21, 5:21 PM

    Can we talk about the fact that the US committed a war crime and no one has been held accountable?

    They are throwing the book at Assange because some US personnel may have been put at risk for having their names revealed. What about the dead unarmed journalists shot from the air like fish in a barrel?

  • by Clubber on 8/11/21, 7:06 PM

    Make no mistake UK, he will almost certainly be kept in solitary confinement (23-24 hours a day, every day) for the entire duration of his sentence for "his own safety."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary_confinement_in_the_Un...

    https://www.afsc.org/resource/solitary-confinement-facts

    Another cruelty of our criminal justice system.

  • by the_optimist on 8/11/21, 6:24 PM

    US journalists remain silent. The correlation between journalism and truth matches journalists’ approval ratings.

  • by gee_totes on 8/11/21, 3:29 PM

    Frustrating that the US extradition case gets a legal boost while the UK courts ignore the evidence that the US indictment of Assange is based on lies https://stundin.is/grein/13627/

  • by bootlooped on 8/11/21, 8:22 PM

    He jumped bail before, screwing over the supporters who put up his bail. He worked deliberately to tank Hillary Clinton's campaign. And don't forget he said he'd agree to extradition if Chelsea Manning was granted clemency, which he blatantly reneged on.

    I think the fact that people just don't like him, justifiably, makes it easy to not care about his case, even though most people can at least agree the legal precedents that may be set are very important.