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    Re: News from Sweden Archived Message

    Posted by dovetailjoint on June 3, 2019, 5:51 pm, in reply to "News from Sweden"

    This is yet another instance of a Swedish court beginning to question, or critise, the entire process that was begun against Assange so many years ago. The obvious lack of a strong case that could stand up in court to cross-examination by the defence and the clear lack of proportionality linked to pursuing Assange so vigorously when the chances of finding him guilty of any kind of sexual crime were so remote, almost, as the first prosecutor in Stockholm concluded, rightfully, that it was unlikely that any sex crime had been committed, in the first place.

    I've argued this all over the place for years and years. That if the affair came before a Swedish court they'ed be very critical of the entire process and the actions of the prosecutors, and that I thought it highly unlikely he'd even be charged with anything, because the court wouldn't bother with the case because, looking at the evidence the chances of a guilty verdict were close to zero, and that the case would be dropped, eventually, with the blame for the fiasco shoved onto the prosecutors who initiated the procedings. What people forget or don't know, or understand in the UK, is that the whole thing hasn't really been driven by Swedish judges and Swedish courts, but by the prosecutors and without charges being brought. This was the crucial thing, the lack of charges, which showed how weak the case was from the start and for years and years. Yet, for British journalists this crucial difference, the difference between allegations and actual charges, specific charges warranting this whole massively disporportionate procedure; meant absolutely nothing to them, because of the political nature of Wikileaks and Assange.

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