Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is expected to appear in a UK court tomorrow!

[Magda Hassan]

Yesterday I would have been very proud to be an Equadorian.

Me too Carsten! I was certainly not proud to be an Australian knowing the government has acted so badly towards him and is a craven lapdog to the US and UK.

But all the time and especially after reading about the Equadorian efforts to establish guarantees for Assange I would be very worried to be Swedish. There must be hundreds of cases in Sweden, in which someone is wanted for questioning, in which no European Arrest Warrant has ever been written. There also must be hundreds or thousands of cases in which someone CONVICTED for rape has been sentenced to less than one and a half year of house arrest. There must also be cases in which someone was questioned outside Sweden.

Yes indeed. It is my understanding that even if guilty of the said behaviour he would like not do jail and just be fined about $500. If jail, no more than 3 months.

How can any Swede live in this country and not be worried to death about the deep corruption in the judicial system that becomes obvious to anyone with eyes to see?

Sweden isn't what it used to be but no one has told the Swedes yet. The media there is very anti Assange and anti Wikileaks. And very supportive of the women. I have been having a long drawn out discussion tonight with a Swede and he just refuses to accept Assange is any thing other than a rapist and cannot understand why we allow these women to be abused. Assange has his supporters there even amongst the feminists but it is a minority and for some reason it is mostly non native born Swedes which are able to see the other side to this story that is not being talked about in the Swedish media.