He has not been sentenced already, I hope you know that. I hope you also know the effort that he and his team made to have the trial been done where he was de-facto prisoner, but also the completely lack of flexibility from those who wanted him to simply step out of the embassy to arrest and extradite him.

The timeline and the events are very well narrated in Stefania Maurizi's book. It's almost gross how much the rape accusations have been used to try to get to him and how poorly both British and Swedish authorities behaved, probably obeying to the US (colonial power much).

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

sweden is well known for bowing to US requests. just look at the history of the unlawful attacks on the piratebay and the sham court they were passed through to get sentenced on no broken laws.

not to mention Sweden's constant bullshit in other data related sectors pushing american (hollywood) agendas into EU (and thankfully failing). the pay to take action against the will of the people IN A DEMOCRACY must be the recipe for immortality or some such because i don't see why they would otherwise be able to legally betray their countrymen.

[–] ralphio@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Let's be even more specific. Sweden has a history of looking the other way on US extraordinary rendition:

https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/post-9-11-renditions-an-extraordinary-violation-of-international-law/

The men were later subjected to torture.