[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...

[CRConrad]

Sure, but still nobody's fault but his own. All the people going "But the evil U[S|K] has already kept him inprisoned at the embassy for ten years!" are totally off their heads. Nobody but he himself did that.