[spindritf]

> He is facing sexual assault charges

No, he is not, he's wanted for "questioning", no charges have been filed. And extradition for questioning, on allegations that seem very flimsy, is excessive to the point of making me doubt prosecutors' honesty.

All the weird things that happened around TPB trial before (chief investigator getting employed by the plaintiffs, judge being a member of pro-copyright association, another judge with speaking appointments for a different pro-copyright organization) don't help the way I view the Swedish justice system.

I'm no fan of Wikileaks, they have lost their way a long time ago and I don't think revealing the cables, or the video was particularly noble or furthered any noble causes. But it's also pretty clear to me that the guy is not being treated fairly, and probably won't be once extradited.

[dagw]

no charges have been filed

That's just an artifact of the terminology used by the Swedish legal system. Charges cannot be filed in absentia in Sweden. The act of formally charging someone comes after questioning and must be done with the person present.

[spindritf]

That is true but they could've questioned him in England, or even in the Ecuadorian embassy. They have questioned people outside of Sweden in other cases. It's the prosecutors "opinion" that he needs to be present in Sweden.

[dagw]

He isn't wanted simply for questioning in the US sense of the word. He's wanted for arrest and formal charging, it just so happens that in Sweden the step that must happen before that in the standard procedure is called 'questioning'. Do the police from one country even have authority to formally charge and arrest someone on foreign soil, let alone in the embassy of third of a nation while on foreign soil? Can you link to one of these other cases where that is happened?