18-08-2012, 07:19 AM
(This post was last modified: 22-08-2012, 12:02 PM by Carsten Wiethoff.)
It is also instructive to read the judgement around the question, whether the European Arrest Warrant issued by Sweden was valid and legal, or not.
The judge finds, it is (just barely), but there are prominent Swedish judges who disagree.
What I find most interesting is that there was an offer from Assanges defense to have a hearing in October 2010, but it was denied because it was too far away from the initial date 27th of September, but after that it was deemed necessary to write the Arrest Warrant. It is in no way logical.
[URL="http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/jud-aut-sweden-v-assange-judgment.pdf"]http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/jud-aut-sweden-v-assange-judgment.pdf
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Reason for editing: Confusion about the dates. The mentioned events happened in 2010, not in 2011 (as falsely claimed in Der Spiegel, www.spiegel.de, Assange timeline)
The judge finds, it is (just barely), but there are prominent Swedish judges who disagree.
What I find most interesting is that there was an offer from Assanges defense to have a hearing in October 2010, but it was denied because it was too far away from the initial date 27th of September, but after that it was deemed necessary to write the Arrest Warrant. It is in no way logical.
[URL="http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/jud-aut-sweden-v-assange-judgment.pdf"]http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/jud-aut-sweden-v-assange-judgment.pdf
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Reason for editing: Confusion about the dates. The mentioned events happened in 2010, not in 2011 (as falsely claimed in Der Spiegel, www.spiegel.de, Assange timeline)
The most relevant literature regarding what happened since September 11, 2001 is George Orwell's "1984".