Ecuador: Sweden "inflexible"

[struggle4progress]

Sweden and the UK have taken a "intransigent" attitude towards WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa says in a television interview ... Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño said he agrees with 'open to talks' with Britain on Assange's fate, but that the next step would be to take the case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. Then the solution would be postponed, and although Ecuador prefers to see the issue resolved, that could several years, Patiño said in an interview with Gama TV yesterday, according to AFP.

Ecuador: Sverige ”oförsonligt”

Sverige och Storbritannien har intagit en ”oförsonlig” attityd i fallet med Wikileaks-grundaren Julian Assange, säger Ecuadors president Rafael Correa i en tv-intervju ... Ecuadors utrikesminister Ricardo Patiño säger att han ställer sig ”öppen till samtal” med Storbritannien om Assanges öde, men att nästa steg vore att ta fallet till Internationella domstolen (ICJ) i Haag. En lösning på konflikten skulle i så fall dröja, och Ecuador föredrar att frågan får en lösning utan att det ska ta flera år, sade Patiño i en intervju med ecuadorianska Gama Tv i går, enligt nyhetsbyrån AFP.

http://www.svd.se/nyheter/utrikes/ecuador-sverige-oforsonligt_7436778.svd

[a geek named Bob]

1. Like I've been saying

try the case in the world court.

A lot less chance of assange "disappearing."

[backscatter712]

2. Exactly. Sweden can easily hold Assange incommunicado.

Their legal system makes it easy to dump him in solitary confinement, keep the press away, and let him sit there for a year or two until the activism and clamor dies down. Then the US quietly unseals its indictment against him for violating the 1917 Espionage Act, they quietly extradite him to the U.S., and Assange disappears into a supermax for the rest of his life.

That's the plan. The press makes far too much of a circus in the UK - very politcally inconvenient. They can be shut up more easily in Sweden, and Assange can be more easily isolated over there.

[a geek named Bob]

3. Thank you, Backscatter712

I guess I just don't trust the PTB in the US government. I wish I had the faith that some of the other posters do, but I don't.

Mind you, if Assange disappears, I'm expecting a wave of actual hacker attacks. (Not the piddly little website 'sploits. I mean the real thing.)

I'd rather this whole thing go to a real court case in a real court.

Let the creeps in the US covert groups EARN their snatches.

[struggle4progress]

4. Assange's route was to ECHR, not ICJ, and he missed the deadline: however loudly Garzon blows,

his threatened suit won't have standing

[a geek named Bob]

5. I guess we'll see

Expecting Sweden or the USA to give a fair trial on ONLY the alleged rape...

Is like expecting Sheriff Bull Drummond to ardently support Civil Rights.

[treestar]

6. Good on you including the Swedish!

I was wondering what the next move would be. I would like to see how they could have ICJ jurisdiction.