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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 04:42 PM Aug 2015

Julian Assange visited by Jesse Jackson



I often agree with Jackson, but in this matter I don't think he knows what he's talking about. Assange jumped bail and ran to the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden, where authorities intended to prosecute him on rape and other sexual assault complaints. There is no indication of any prosecution of Assange for publishing anything; and he is not being detained without charges: he's in the embassy of his own free will
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