Julian Assange: Amnesty calls for Swedish assurances

[EnglishLady]

"Amnesty said fears he will face a US trial over Wikileaks "have played no small part in the current stand-off".

It added that it has no evidence that Sweden plans to extradite Mr Assange to the US but if such a "forced transfer" did take place, it believed he would be exposed to a "real risk of serious human rights violations".


Is this diplomatic speak for ... 'Extradition to the USA to man up for what he did' do you think hmmm ?

BBC News - Julian Assange: Amnesty calls for Swedish assurances

 

[Turtle]

Assange is far more interested in his ego than anything else. Being on the world stage feeds it like nothing else can.

 

[chefdennis]

I'd bet this has more then a "little bit" to do with Amnesty pushing Sweden:

U.S. military declares Assange 'enemy of the state'
The Sydney Morning Herald
by: Philip Dorling
Thursday, September 27, 2012

U.S. military declares Assange 'enemy of the state' | Times 247

The U.S. military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States — the same legal category as the al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban insurgency.

Declassified US Air Force counter-intelligence documents, released under US freedom-of-information laws, reveal that military personnel who contact WikiLeaks or WikiLeaks supporters may be at risk of being charged with "communicating with the enemy", a military crime that carries a maximum sentence of death.

The documents, some originally classified "Secret/NoForn" — not releasable to non-US nationals — record a probe by the air force's Office of Special Investigations into a cyber systems analyst based in Britain who allegedly expressed support for WikiLeaks and attended pro-Assange demonstrations in London.

 

[skyraider]

Will someone in here please tell us how this guy got all that ( supposed to be secret stuff) and got to publish it. Like , ugh,,,is not that stuff for spies and he gets it on the web. Does this not make spies look stupid, does this not make all governments look stupid? If this wiki leaks things was done once, why not again.................................