>Given what happened in Sweden when he was kicked out of the Ecuadorian embassy and the UK arrested him for extradition to the US, I believe the Swedish accusations were made, and the prosecutions were done, in good faith.
Just picking a nit here, but IIRC Assange was not arrested by UK authorities to be extradited to the US (that's just a "bonus" for the US), but because he broke UK law by "jumping bail,"[0] which is a crime in the UK.
There are a raft of other details/issues around Assange and his Swedish/British/Ecuadorian odyssey, and those have been endlessly discusssed/litigated in the press.
I won't address those issues, as I don't think it would add productively to this discussion.
Assange did violate the terms of his bail in the UK and was convicted and sentenced accordingly, regardless of other issues.
> Just picking a nit here, but IIRC Assange was not arrested by UK authorities to be extradited to the US
Ok, fair. My recollection was that they did both at about the same time, though subsequent focus on the (clearly motivated) US extradition rather overshadow the Swedish issues (which don't look politically motivated to me; though obviously that's what they want me to think :P).
That the UK didn't bother to tell Sweden is even more egregious given what you say.
Just picking a nit here, but IIRC Assange was not arrested by UK authorities to be extradited to the US (that's just a "bonus" for the US), but because he broke UK law by "jumping bail,"[0] which is a crime in the UK.
There are a raft of other details/issues around Assange and his Swedish/British/Ecuadorian odyssey, and those have been endlessly discusssed/litigated in the press.
I won't address those issues, as I don't think it would add productively to this discussion.
Assange did violate the terms of his bail in the UK and was convicted and sentenced accordingly, regardless of other issues.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bail_in_the_United_Kingdom
Edit: Clarified my thoughts.