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by jstarfish 2892 days ago
Right, because investigation and prosecution of an alleged crime is impossible without the suspect's testimony.

It was a trumped-up allegation. The timing and nature of it alone should have raised flags. Whatever truth there is to it does not warrant the diplomatic circus this has become.
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JumpCrisscross 2892 days ago
> It was a trumped-up allegation

You’re quite callously dismissing two womens’ rape allegations.

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jstarfish 2891 days ago
No, I'm not.

Whether their claims have any merit or not is not for me to say, but how many other womens' rape allegations result in an international extradition effort...just for questioning?

The government wanted him already. Now they had a reason to bring him in, by making a bigger deal out of allegations they would otherwise ignore.

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GW150914 2891 days ago
Most people don’t flee their country’s legal system, and if they do they’re quietly pursued. Even fewer loudly defy their country’s legal system, but when they do they tend to be loudly pursued as a deterrent. It doesn’t get more public and defiant than taking shelter in a foreign country’s embassy while declaring both your innocence, and that your home country is corrupt and lying about you. Very few countries would take that lying down.

Then you add the prexisting desire to nab him, but only then.

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