Posted on 05/19/2017 7:50:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Swedish prosecutors have decided to drop charges of rape against the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange. The charges stem from accusations by two women that Assange forced himself on them 7 years ago.
At the time, Assange had been arrested by British authorities and released on bail while he awaited extradition to Sweden. Instead, he jumped bail and sought refuge in the Ecuadoran embassy in London.
Swedish prosecutors have not exonerated Assange; they say that because they can't prosecute him in the foreseeable future that they were forced to drop the investigation.
There is an outstanding warrant for Assange in Great Britain for jumping bail, but authorities have not indicated they will enforce it. Neither the British or the US will say if there is a sealed indictment from an American court against Assange stemming for the release of tens of thousands of classified documents.
WikiLeaks tweeted after the Swedish announcement: "UK refuses to confirm or deny whether it has already received a US extradition warrant for Julian Assange. Focus now moves to UK."
The Swedish Prosecution Authority said Friday that chief Marianne Ny "has decided to discontinue the investigation" and Ny said she will call back the European arrest warrant on Assange.
Ny told reporters that the WikiLeaks founder had "tried to dodge all attempts at arrest" by British and Swedish authorities. She said prosecutors had been unable to make a full assessment of the case and were not making a finding on whether Assange was guilty of the allegations.
She said the case could be reopened if Assange returns to Sweden before the statute of limitations expires in 2020.
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The department is probably overloaded with rape cases right now.
sweden isn’t prosecuting anyone for rape these days.
Did he become a muzzie?
Don’t fall for it. Stay in the embassy. We can’t afford to loose you now.
Yeah...feels like it’s a means of getting him out of the embassy to off him.
That was my first thought as well; a clumsy attempt to get him out into the open.
Rape charges were not Dropped and can be tendered at any time. The Investigation is in abeyance because there is nothing more available to investigate without access to Assange. Should he walk out of the Embassy as a putatively free man the still extant charges will be used to grab and extradite him.
Rape by Moslems which is almost all rape in Sweden right now is mostly ignored. Perps are sometimes arrested if there is too much uproar then they are released with some mumbling about Religious Rights.
Loose? Is he too tight?
It now appears he will be lucid.
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