Swedish court rejects request to detain Assange

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Owen Bowcott
Mon 3 Jun 2019 14.06 EDT

... The ruling by the district court prevents Swedish prosecutors from applying immediately for an extradition warrant for Assange to face an allegation of rape dating back to 2010. Assange denies the accusation.

Assange is serving a 50-week sentence in Britain for skipping bail after he spent seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London attempting to avoid extradition to Sweden ...

If both Sweden and the US present competing extradition requests, it will be up to the UK home secretary, Sajid Javid, to decide which application takes priority ...

“As Julian Assange is currently serving a prison sentence, the investigation can proceed with the help of a European investigation order, which does not require Julian Assange’s detention (in Sweden). The court therefore does not find it proportional to detain Julian Assange,” the judgment said ...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jun/03/swedish-court-rejects-request-to-detain-julian-assange

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1. Maybe now he can release that insurance file

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2. Right now, I imagine his lawyers are shopping seriously for a Swedish extradition warrant

The Swedes certainly won't extradite him to the US on an espionage charge