Ah, Xest, you grace us with your presence and personal attacks. Thanks for predictably showing up.
She likes to sound intelligent by throwing in random Swedish words like the Swedish version of "the accused" as if it somehow makes her sound more intelligent, but honestly it just comes across as plain weird, I really to this day cannot understand why you'd write out a paragraph in English and just throw in a few otherwise directly translatable words in Swedish other than to try and pretend you have more of a clue than you actually do.
Because it's one of the standard Assange fanboy tactics to say "he's not been charged with anything". Except that that's just a linguistics games. Swedish has two words which one can translate as "accused", "charged", or "indicted" - anklagad and åtalad. Neither corresponds 100% directly to the English equivalent of "charged". Anklagad is to get someone into custody, åtalad is to get them to trial once in custody. Now, if I were to say "the things Assange was charged with...." then I'd be harrassed by a bunch of Assange fanboys playing this dumb linguistic game where they call åtalad "charged" and call anklagad absolutely nothing. So I just simply use the Swedish terms to avoid this.
Note that the UK court system has at every level ruled the fact that Assange is anklagad as being equivalent to being charged for the purposes of the EAW.
"Rape fugitive"? yeah sure Rei, that doesn't sound like a loaded description of someone who has neither been found guilty of rape, nor even been charged for rape, but merely wanted for questioning.
1) You know damn well that he is not "merely wanted for questioning". From the signed statement of the prosecutor to the UK lower court, point #10: "Subject to any matters said by him, which undermine my present view that he should be indicted, an indictment will be launched with the court thereafter. It can therefore be seen that Assange is sought for the purpose of conducting criminal proceedings and that he is not sought merely to assist with our enquiries."
It's a ridiculous notion that someone who has already been found by a court of law and repeatedly upheld on appeal to have probable cause of having committed rape is "merely wanted for questioning".
2) Gee, what a shock, you're playing the anklagad/åtalad word game. How predictable could you possibly get?
3) A person who runs from the police is known as a fugitive. That is THE word for it. When the cause that the police want them for is rape, then they're a rape fugitive. Period. If you don't like the English language, don't speak it.
Oh let me guess, the tired old "but Sweden can't charge someone without doing it on their soil!". Bollocks. Completely false.
Once åtalad, there's a time limit for when the trial must begin. Pray tell, how are they supposed to manage that with a person who refuses to turn themselves in?
I'll reiterate: the process of having someone åtalad is to bring someone in custody to trial. Assange is not in custody. Hence this is not the stage to åtala him.
Sweden can do this and have done this.
And your example is...?
They haven't done it because they're not far enough along in their investigation yet.
Right, "not far enough along in their investigation"! Over half a dozen court rulings including formal findings, upheld by other courts, of probable cause of rape, but "not far enough along in their investigation". How do you work that one?
propagandist man-haters like Rei
Come on, you can do better than that. Tell me that I eat kittens and torture seal pups for fun!
Sweden isn't far along enough in it's investigation yet because it refuses to question Assange anywhere other than on it's soil even though it can and has done this for many other suspects in the past.
Sweden can and has questioned people remotely to gather information to help an investigation. They cannot and do not åtala people remotely. And according to the prosecutor, "Subject to any matters said by him, which undermine my present view that he should be indicted, an indictment will be launched with the court thereafter. It can therefore be seen that Assange is sought for the purpose of conducting criminal proceedings and that he is not sought merely to assist with our enquiries."
In fact, Sweden's own courts recently criticised Assange's prosecutors for not being willing to move the case forward by simply questioning him in the UK or via video link:
If someone actually reads your link, they find that it's actually a very mild comment in the middle of a ruling harshly against Assange's run from the law. Yes, the prosecutors absolutely can go question him. They have to give him another questioning at one point anyway. But that alone is not enough to åtala him, because he cannot be brought to trial as it stands. Some people (including, apparently Svea Hovrätt - which, I should add, is the court that found probable cause of him having committed rape, unlawful sexual coersion, and 2 counts of molestation) feel that it'd be good to do even though it itself isn't enough to bring him to trial. The prosecutor's office thinks it sets a bad precident. I agree with the prosecutor's office.
Honestly I've not bothered before
Oh, please, you "bother" every bloody time, you're one of the most extreme Assange fanboys on this site:
Link Link Link Link Link ... I could go on with hundreds of examples. You post so damn much on the subject, let me provide your own words back to you: Go away Xest, Slashdot isn't yours.
Of course we, the UK tax payers, stuck in the middle are footing the bill for this
Assange can end this absurd waste of money that he's caused in sixty seconds. Seriously, you're mad at the police for not wilfully ignoring a supreme court ruling and just letting a wanted man leave, rather than the wanted man who refuses to hand himself over to the police? Is that the sort of country that you want to leave in, where the police just ignore the courts system because a fugitive is popular in certain circles?
Rapists should be hung, drawn, and quartered, and the widespread failure by authorities globally to deal with sexual assault and obtain convictions in cases where they should is a major problem.
Says a guy supporting a rape fugitive's multi-year run from the law.
