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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts) Mon Feb 22, 2016, 08:35 AM Feb 2016

Swedish Lawyers Ask Court to Overturn Julian Assange's Arrest Warrant

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Source: Reuters / Independent

@Reuters: BREAKING NEWS: Swedish lawyers ask court to overturn Julian Assange's arrest warrant

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Julian Assange: Swedish lawyers ask court to overturn arrest warrant against Wikileaks founder

Lawyers have made a formal request to a Swedish court to overturn Julian Assange's arrest warrant in a rape case.

The journalist has spent more than three years hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London after his appeal against extradition failed in the UK courts.

Thomas Olsson, one of Assange's lawyers, said in a statement: "We consider that there have arisen a number of new circumstances which mean there is reason to review the earlier decision".

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/swedish-lawyers-ask-court-to-overturn-julian-assanges-arrest-warrant-a6889041.html

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Swedish Lawyers Ask Court to Overturn Julian Assange's Arrest Warrant (Original Post) Hissyspit Feb 2016 OP

Uh, what Swedish lawyers? Lawyers working for Assange, perhaps? randome Feb 2016 #1

Good question. Hissyspit Feb 2016 #2

Reuters-derived article in the Independent: muriel_volestrangler Feb 2016 #3

Yes, homegirl Feb 2016 #6

Swedish newspaper report homegirl Feb 2016 #4

lol good luck with that shit... Blue_Tires Feb 2016 #5

randome

(34,845 posts)

1. Uh, what Swedish lawyers? Lawyers working for Assange, perhaps?

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Mon Feb 22, 2016, 09:32 AM

Feb 2016

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]

Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)

2. Good question.

Reply to randome (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 22, 2016, 09:43 AM

Feb 2016

Reuters hasn't posted a follow-up article and I can't find anything anywhere else.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)

3. Reuters-derived article in the Independent:

Reply to Hissyspit (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 22, 2016, 09:59 AM

Feb 2016

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/swedish-lawyers-ask-court-to-overturn-julian-assanges-arrest-warrant-a6889041.html

homegirl

(1,429 posts)

6. Yes,

Reply to randome (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 22, 2016, 01:47 PM

Feb 2016

Assanges's lawyers per Dagens Nyheter-Swedish newspaper.

homegirl

(1,429 posts)

4. Swedish newspaper report

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Mon Feb 22, 2016, 11:33 AM

Feb 2016

I read Swedish, at the very beginning of this event there was a report on the claims of these women. In the interviews and complaint they admitted to "stalking" Assange, they followed him to his hotel, approached him and entered his room. What they did there only they know, but they had previously attempted to contact him. From the article I gathered that they were "groupies."

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

5. lol good luck with that shit...

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Mon Feb 22, 2016, 01:32 PM

Feb 2016

Assange has a better chance of flapping his arms and flying to the moon...

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