badgenome on 23 August 2012
| Kasz216 said: Except you know. Sweden DID explicity assure this. "Sweden does not extradite individuals who risk facing the death penalty," a Swedish Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said, implicitly referring to the possibility Assange could be charged with crimes eligible for the death penalty in the United States, with whom it has an extradition agreement. Any claims to the contrary are pure bull. |
Well, that's implicit, not explicit.
And that's not really an assurance that he wouldn't be extradited to the US at all. It just means that Sweden would first want assurances that he wouldn't face the death penalty - which he wouldn't in all likelihood, anyway.
