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by toyg 2407 days ago
The real news is that it has emerged Swedish authorities wanted to drop this years ago and were "dissuaded" by UK authorities. Now that US extradition is likely, and a competing claim by Sweden would put that at risk, they conveniently withdraw - what are the chance they were "persuaded" by someone else, again?

Sweden really did a number on Assange.

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> and were "dissuaded" by UK authorities

Do you have a source for that?

> a competing claim by Sweden would put that at risk

The prosecutor tried but a court in Uppsala refused the detention request so the Yanks got in first.