Sweden Admits They Will Extradite Assange Upon US Request

The alternative media proven right again as the Swedish government admits they will extradite Assange as long as he does not face execution.

The alternative media and bloggers have been saying for months that UK plan to extradite Wikileaks Julian Assange to Sweden on fabricated charges was nothing more than a plan to hand him over to the United States to be tortured, given a rigged trial and executed.

The corporate media and paid government disinformation agents have spammed the internet saying their was not even a single ounce of truth behind such claims starting with the basis that Sweden has not given any official indication they planned on extraditing Assange or that the United States was even working on a criminal case that would be required to request Assange’s extradition.

Both of those claims are now proven to be false

FOIA documents obtained from Australian show that the United States has infact been working on putting together a case based on false claims Assange helped Manning illegally crack government encryption to obtain the information handed over to Wikileaks. (I explain why this is absurd here and IT experts would certainly agree with me).

Now Sweden has come forward to admit they will in fact extradite Assange to the United States if they receive such a request but only under the strict condition that if they do so the United States will not execute him.

It became obvious that the plan was to extradite Assange to the US when Sweden turned down the offer to question Assange at the Ecuador embassy where they would not be able to arrest or extradite him.

Instead they insisted that the UK must extradite Assange to Sweden to be questioned.

Here’s RT with more:

Sweden: If Assange faces death row in US we won’t extradite him

RT – The Swedish government will not extradite Assange to the US should he face the death penalty there, as any possible extradition request from Washington is then subject to strict conditions, an official from the country’s Justice Ministry declared.

­“We will never surrender a person to the death penalty,” the deputy director of the Service for Criminal Cases and International Cooperation of Sweden’s Justice Ministry said in an interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper on Tuesday.

This means there should be strict guarantees from the US government that “the prisoner will not be executed in any case,” added Cecilia Riddselius. But, she added, so far her country has not received any extradition request from Washington.

In June, Cecilia Riddselius admitted there were opportunities for countries to request different types of guarantees in relation to extradition. Sweden may request that an extradited person will not be sentenced to the death penalty, he or she will not be tortured, should not be prosecuted for offences other than those which he or she was delivered for and not to be charged before a special court.

However, Riddselius then stressed, Sweden cannot guarantee in advance that Assange will not be extradited.

The WikiLeaks founder is wanted in Sweden for questioning over sexual misconduct. He and his supporters, however, fear that if extradited to Sweden, he may be further extradited to the United States, where he could then face the death penalty for espionage following the publication of thousands of classified documents, including secret cables of the US State Department.

Last week, the Ecuadorian government announced it has granted the world-famous whistleblower political asylum. The decision came almost two months after Assange took refuge in the country’s London embassy seeking protection from extradition to Sweden.

The decision has already become the epicenter of a diplomatic row between Ecuador and Great Britain, with London threatening to storm the embassy. Ecuador has already taken the issue to the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), which unanimously backed the country’s right to grant Assange asylum and condemned British threats to raid a sovereign state’s embassy in order to arrest him.

Ecuador also promised to appeal to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) if the UK refuses to grant Julian Assange safe passage out of the country.

According to WikiLeaks, all of this could be avoided if they managed to obtain a guarantee of no re-extradition from Sweden.

A spokesperson for WikiLeaks stressed that Assange would “gladly go to Sweden for questioning if they were able to guarantee that [he] wouldn’t be extradited to the United States”.

While deciding on Assange’s political asylum Ecuador also offered Sweden the chance to question him at the embassy, but Stockholm brushed away the possibility.

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