Assange - foreign office threaten to arrest him

[Empusa]

Article here

They are talking about revoking the Ecuadorian embassy's diplomatic immunity in order to enter the embassy.

Wonder if they will actually do so?

[EldritchCleavage]

Jammy (Bail) Dodgers
Choco Leggedit

[albertswearengen]

I think Assange is an idiot but I found his balcony scene nauseating until I read Jon Ronson's tweet that "he looks like John Inman with a messiah complex". Now that is funny.
I think if they want him out all they have to do is stop taking him so seriously. Station some people outside the embassy singing comedy songs about him and generally taking the piss - his ego would just implode.

[TheDoctrineOfEnnis]

Millionaire's Shortchanged?
(Jemima Khan springs to mind)

[albertswearengen]

Cowardycustard creams

[Empusa]

Have just seen tweets that one of Assange's supporters has named one of the victims, anyone know if that's true?

[AGiraffeOnTheDivingBoard]

yes just happened on Newsnight

he got a bollocking from the brilliant woman from the Independent

[Empusa]

I assume Sweden has the same laws as us regarding naming accusers in sex crime cases?

[TheDoctrineOfEnnis]

Erm, I thought they were named in Kladdaka's statements up thread? Or maybe the Swedish police puts random names on statements like that (a la Jane Doe) so those weren't the actual names.

[TheDoctrineOfEnnis]

The statements she linked to, I mean.

[MrsGuyOfGisbourne]

so fine to bandy out accusations naming the alleged perp, but hidng under anonymity? Mumsnet hypocrisy in spades.

[TheDoctrineOfEnnis]

MrsGuy, I don't entirely understand your point, but In the UK, the names of alleged victims of rape are protected, the names of alleged rapists are not. That isn't Mumsnet hypocrisy, it is UK law.

I don't know what Swedish law is in this respect.

[MrsGuyOfGisbourne]

Rape is a serious crime. Andy yet it appears to be unchallenged in the mumsnset orthodoxy to publicise the name of a person accused of that serious crime, while the accuser remains anonymous. Hence the hypocrisy.

[TheDoctrineOfEnnis]

But that is because it is UK law and most posters are from the UK. You could start a campaign to change the law and you may well get support from some MNers.

[Kladdkaka]

Under Swedish law both the accused and the accuser have anonimity in rape cases. Sadly however, this case is being tried in the court of media and therefore all parties have been publicly identified since the get go.

[TheDoctrineOfEnnis]

Thanks, Klad. Were the statements you linked to previously leaked or have the police made some kind of official exception?

[MrsGuyOfGisbourne]

Swedish law is clearly fairer to both sides in that context, so since JA's name was made public in Sweden and thence the whole world, it is therefore entirely reasonable for the accusers also to be publicly known. In fact, their names were known from the start as they went public at the outset about the welcome they gave to him in their - erm - homes.

[Kladdkaka]

They were leaked Ennis. I don't know who by though.

[CoteDAzur]

Both women were named in newspapers a long time ago.

[Childrenofthestones]

The Liberal media goes to work.


medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=686:incinerating-assange-the-liberal-media-go-to-work&catid=25:alerts-2012&Itemid=69

[albertswearengen]

So after reading this thread I went on the net to try and help me understand what the actual legal position was and found this summary very useful.
//www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2012/08/legal-myths-about-assange-extradition