[ajanuary]

It's not a scale. Red isn't worse than orange, they just mean different things. Orange is issued to notice of an immediate threat to life. If anything, orange is more severe.

http://amiobjective.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/assange-case-comm...

[Edit: Added reference]

[TazeTSchnitzel]

Ah, the documentary I saw quite poorly framed it, then.