Swedish Court Rejects Prosecutor Request To Detain Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange On Rape Charge

June 5. 2019

Julian Assange

Wikileaks website founder, Julian Assange, 47, is currently in the hospital ward of the Belmarsh prison in England, for jumping bail. Assange was ensconced in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for several years, due to being granted asylum, which protected him from then pending charges in Sweden and America, among other nations.

Assange was recently ejected from the embassy, after a dispute with Ecuador’s President Moreno. Due to the dispute, Moreno telephoned local authorities to have Assange forcefully removed from the embassy by the Metropolitan Police and placed under arrest. The British courts sentenced Assange to 50-weeks in prison on a skipping bail charge, related to his asylum.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed two sets of charges against Assange for leaking government files, revealing criminal misconduct on the part of former U.S. president and war criminal, George W. Bush. The first charge was a single count of computer intrusion. However, the government went back and added 17 more charges in the indictment in relation to violating the U.S. Espionage Act. The charges amount to up to 170-years in prison. He is also potentially facing the death penalty.

The Swedish government also asked their British counterparts about extraditing Assange to their nation in reference to a questionable rape case. Shortly after, news surfaced that Assange had a complete mental breakdown and was barely able to walk or talk. Spending 7-years indoors at the embassy, then facing an onslaught of criminal charges, proved too much for the whistleblower, who exposed corruption in world governments.

This week the courts in Sweden have denied a request by one of their prosecutors, Eva-Marie Persson, to extradite Assange to their nation and detain him for prosecution. Persson stated she will continue to search for ways to pursue the criminal case. However, the court’s ruling has made it very difficult to do so.
In other news, according to the website Politico, the U.S. Justice Department will not file anymore charges against Assange. That remains to be seen.

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