On 07/07/2021 16:58, David Barrett wrote:
It wasn't dropped:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48253343
<https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48253343>
I didn't say it was, but
Yes, the rape investigation was, finally, dropped on 19 Nov 2019, 6
months after it was reopened in May 2019 as per your link. I believe it
can't be reopened again without major hassles in Sweden.
Assange wasn't ever detained for more than a few hours on the rape
allegations - he got bail, which he famously skipped.
Then embassy, arrested again, was sentenced to imprisonment for 50 weeks
for breaking bail which sentence he has served, and he is now detained
but not imprisoned pending appeal on the US extradition charges.
Peter Fairbrother
They did temporarily while he was hiding in the embassy (again, he was
hiding from Sweden, not the US -- Obama didn't try to arrest him, Sweden
did, and Assange ran), but now that he's out of hiding, it's reopened.
David
On Wed, Jul 7, 2021, 2:31 AM Peter Fairbrother <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 07/07/2021 09:27, David Barrett wrote:
> (Though Assange is actually imprisoned in the UK for skipping
bail by
> hiding out in the Ecuadorian embassy for years to avoid rape
charges --
> which is a completely different matter that still needs to be
settled.)
Perhaps so in actuality, but in law he has already served his sentence
for breaking bail.
At present he is detained pending an appeal by the US against the
refusal of his extradition. Unsurprisingly he is considered a flight
risk, and has been refused bail.
Peter Fairbrother
