[pelasaco]

From the article:

"The US had offered four assurances, including that Mr Assange would not be subject to solitary confinement pre or post-trial or detained at the ADX Florence Supermax jail - a maximum security prison in Colorado - if extradited.

Lawyers for the US said he would be allowed to transfer to Australia to serve any prison sentence he may be given closer to home.

And they argued Mr Assange's mental illness "does not even come close" to being severe enough to prevent him from being extradited."

So assuming that the international community cannot avoid his extradition, to make sure that those assurances are true and can be hold, would be already a win, no?

[josteink]

I’m sure Epstein was offered assurances as well.

US assurances aren’t worth the toilet-paper they’re written on.

[adgjlsfhk1]

the "assurances" had an unless we feel like it exemption.

[JCharante]

Well nobody has ever died while in custody of US law enforcement, so this seems reasonable

[pelasaco]

exactly, I'm not saying that it is perfect, but to keep comparing with Epstein and joking around won't help Julian Assange. Important is: if those Assurances could be documented and monitored by the international community, it is definitely great and TBH, would be better to Assange if he would have gotten something like that back in 2010.. he lost 10 years of his life in "prison", but it won't even be reduced from his sentence..

[CRConrad]

> he lost 10 years of his life in "prison", but it won't even be reduced from his sentence..

Totally his own fault. Neither the USA nor the UK told him to hole up in that embassy; he did that all on his own.

[pelasaco]

yes, sure. Probably he believed that Obama and the international community would save him. In another hand back in the days he didn't have the same offer on the table as he has now.

[CRConrad]

To me it feels more likely that he just wanted to avoid a few years in Swedish prison for rape and thought it would blow over soon (much faster than in the end it did), so he could slither out from the embassy in a month or three. The whole "afraid Sweden would extradite him to the USA" line felt phony then and still does now.

[pelasaco]

which is understandable.. I think people accused from rape have an universal welcome treatment everywhere in the world...