Sevilla (Spain), Sep 6 (EFE). - The former Spanish judge and attorney for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Baltasar Garzon, reiterated today that his client ... must be "protected" from extradition to the United States.

Garzón, who is involved in a legal course in the Spanish city of Seville (south), told reporters that "there is nothing new"with regard to to the situation of the Australian journalist, who has taken refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador in London ...


Garzón reitera que Assange debe ser "protegido" frente a EEUU

Sevilla (España), 6 sep (EFE).- El exjuez español Baltasar Garzón, abogado del fundador de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, reiteró hoy que su defendido ... debe ser "protegido" para que no se le extradite a Estados Unidos.

Garzón, que participa en un curso judicial en la ciudad española de Sevilla (sur), dijo a los periodistas que "no hay ninguna novedad" sustancial respecto a la situación del periodista australiano, refugiado en la Embajada de Ecuador en Londres ...

http://feeds.univision.com/feeds/article/2012-09-06/garzon-reitera-que-assange-debe?refPath=/noticias/estados-unidos/noticias/

5:10 pm 06-Sep, 2012 | EFE
Dialogue on the Assange case between the two countries was suspended following a complaint made by Quito that the UK had threatened to disrupt the operation of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

Andes, the Ecuadorian public agency news, reported Thursday that Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño said that the dialogue with the UK on the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, would resume "immediately" ...

Ecuador: Diálogo con Londres se retomará inmediatamente
05:10 pm 06-Sep de 2012|EFE
El diálogo entre ambos países sobre el caso Assange se suspendió tras la denuncia efectuada por el Gobierno de Quito de que el Reino Unido habría amenazado con la posibilidad de irrumpir en la Embajada ecuatoriana en Londres.

El canciller ecuatoriano, Ricardo Patiño, aseguró que el diálogo con el Reino Unido sobre el caso del fundador de WikiLeaks, Julián Assange, se retomará "inmediatamente", informó este jueves la agencia pública de noticias de Ecuador, Andes ...

http://www.el-nacional.com/noticia/50984/11/ecuador-dialogo-con-londres-se-retomara-inmediatamente.html

...prosecutors. The first prosecutor found the allegations against Assange so flimsy, he dropped the case and told Assange he could leave the country. Quite obviously U.S./U.K. pressure on Sweden resulted in that prosecutor being pulled off the case and another brought in who would do the U.S./U.K.'s bidding, which is to pursue Assange in such a way as to get him into custody (so he could be extradited to the U.S. for the crime of journalism and severely punished for it). Assange went to London and made himself available to the second prosecutor, who has repeatedly refused to question him. The second prosecutor then put out a warrant for his arrest. Talk about a fraudulent game!

They don't want to "question" him about the flimsy sex allegations. That has nothing to do with anything. They want him IN CUSTODY for the above stated purpose.

So, the first potential resolution of this situation (that Correa mentions)--Sweden agreeing not to extradite Assange to a third country--is not going to happen. That was the whole point of their reviving this absurd case, refusing to question Assange and then issuing a warrant for his arrest. It was never to "question" him. It was always to extradite him to the U.S. And, of course, the U.S./U.K. will never agree to that condition, either, because their sole purpose is to get Assange into chains.

The second potential resolution--"the Swedish prosecutor could accept interrogation at the Embassy of Ecuador in London"--is not going to happen either. That's exactly what they DON'T want to do--question Assange. Their sex case will collapse if they do. They don't have a case. And, not incidentally, the crap they've been using to pretend to have a case is a bloody insult to every woman who has been genuinely assaulted.

I imagine that Rafael Correa is well aware that his first two scenarios are not going to happen, and mentions them because, a) they are reasonable solutions in a world in which the Swedish government is NOT LYING about why they want Assange UNDER ARREST, and b) to point up the Swedish government's utter hypocrisy. If they really wanted to "question" Assange, they could have done so long ago.

with the Swedish prosecutorial process

The authorities in Sweden made repeated efforts to schedule this interrogation with Assange, through his lawyer, while Assange was still in Sweden, and Assange left Sweden immediately after it was made clear to his lawyer that the authorities in Sweden were likely to take him into custody for interrogation: Assange's lawyer originally misled the UK court on this point, and the lawyer later admitted in court that the authorities in Sweden did make repeated efforts to schedule the interrogation before Assange had left Sweden

Assange, through his lawyers, has challenged the Swedish court-order to take him into custody, and he has lost all his challenges of that order in Sweden

The Swedish prosecutorial process is not identical with or parallel to the English process, and the terminology for the Swedish process does not always translate cleanly into English

The issue, of how the requested interrogation should be regarded by the UK courts for the purposes of evaluating an extradition request, has been thoroughly litigated in the UK

The UK courts have determined that the interrogation is part of the Swedish prosecutorial process: the fact -- that consistent with the Swedish prosecutorial process, and consistent with the Swedish court order, the Swedish prosecutors intend to take Assange into custody for interrogation -- represents a determination by Swedish prosecutors to move forward in the prosecution of Assange

The UK courts have found that the Swedish authorities want Assange for purposes of prosecution, and the UK courts have accordingly decided that Assange should be handed to Sweden, so that Swedish authorities can move forward in his prosecution

20 August 2010 The Swedish Prosecutor's Office issues an arrest warrant for Julian Assange ...
21 August 2010 The arrest warrant is withdrawn ...
31 August 2010 Mr Assange is questioned by police for about an hour in Stockholm ...
1 September 2010 Swedish Director of Prosecution Marianne Ny says she is reopening the rape investigation against Mr Assange ... Ms Ny is also head of the department that oversees prosecution of sex crimes ...

...who overruled the first prosecutor and have trumped up this EXCUSE to get Julian Assange into CUSTODY.

Assange has NOT been charged with any crime. They don't have a case. So they created one by ignoring his willingness to be questioned on these absurd sex charges and telling him he could leave the country.

This is a mockery of justice, a mockery of women who have been genuinely assaulted, and what is more, it makes a complete mockery of U.K., Swedish and U.S. blather about "free speech." Their intention is to punish Assange as severely as possible for crime of journalism!

on 1 September 2010. Swedish authorities were repeatedly in contact with Assange's lawyer in Sweden, while Assange was still in Sweden, in September 2010, trying to arrange further interrogation of him, in order to move forward with a prosecution of him in Sweden. When it was made clear to Assange's lawyer, that the authorities intended to detain his client, Assange immediately left the country for the UK. The interrogation, that the Swedish authorities seek, is not simply a matter of asking questions: the UK courts have held that the interrogation is part and parcel of the Swedish prosecutorial process and have further held that Sweden's request, for Assange's extradition to be interrogated, is nothing other than a request for Assange to be handed over for prosecution. The original arrest order for Assange was issued by a Swedish court, and Assange's lawyers appealed that unsuccessfully twice in Sweden. The Swedish court's arrest order means that the next step in the Swedish process against Assange is to take him into custody for interrogation. The Swedish court's arrest order predates the international arrest warrant that Assange fought (for over a year and a half) in the UK courts. The Swedish authoritories have prevailed in Swedish courts, and in the UK courts, and Assange has jumped bail to avoid extradition to Sweden, which had requested his extradition expressly for the purpose of prosecution

The Swedish prosecutors are pursuing a sexual offense prosecution of Assange. That is why there is a Swedish court order for his arrest. That is why there is an international warrant for his arrest.The UK courts have determined the international warrant, for Assange's arrest, was issued for the purposes of prosecution on various charges including rape