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In reply to the discussion: No charges ever pressed: Assange marks three years of UK detention [View all]joshcryer
(62,270 posts)If they were to do that they would've done it by now. It's highly unlikely. And even if they did the UK would not recognize it and under international laws and treaties the UK would be in the right.
There's a reason that Assange is still there. There's no recourse outside of facing justice. He'll be there the rest of his life unless he walks out and faces justice.
The fact that Assange says he won't leave the Ecuadoran embassy even if Sweden drops the case tells me he is more paranoid about the US getting him than anything else. Really, he doesn't give one shit about his accusers, he's all worried about being sent into indefinite detention.
Is it warranted? Probably. But let's be clear. This isn't about the woman he raped under his own admission. This is about his being afraid of being indefinitely detained. Justice for that woman is a side note, an asterisk, an irrelevancy, from his point of view.