50 Weeks

[-Talbot-]

If anyone is interested.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48118908

[jackthehat]

Hopefully he'll treat his cell in HMP with a little more respect than he did his billet in the Ecuadorian Embassy.

[anotheoldgit]

No.

[youngmafbog]

I guess this gives other interested parties time to build an extradition case.

Good riddance to him, shame he is costing us even more money.

[Zacs-Master]

Yes, YMB, I'd agree this is a 'lets bang him up for anything' charge whilst the real meaty ones are put together.

[youngmafbog]

Well it is.

[Baldric]

Not really bothered one way or the other tbh.

[david small]

Am I the only one that thinks this man is being targeted because he exposed lies, deceit, corruption, dishonesty and national extortion?

[ichkeria]

Probably not, but you and others would be wrong to think that.
Assange had a couple of decent “hits”, but he’s long since lost the plot. He’s left a trail of embarrassment in his wake, largely on the part of the people who supported him.

[JF85]

He might have earned more sympathy if he actually had exposed "lies, deceit, corruption ...". Instead he published one 'smoking gun' then shot himself in the foot by publishing everything else he could get his hands on, thereby abandoning any claim to journalistic freedom or public interest.

As it is, he was on bail but chose to do a runner. Rather than face his accusers in Sweden, he has given the US time to prepare a case for extradition there. At the time of his recent arrest only the US were asking us to hand him over.

At least he is now in a place where smearing the walls is quite common, and he might find out what sexual assault feels like from the other side.

[Togo]

No time for Assange...….but, just but, I can't help comparing the diligence and veracity that was shown by Sweden in pursuing accusations of sexual against him and the laissez faire approach that they take to similar accusations against immigrants of a certain kind.

[Spicerack]

He didn't rape or sexually assault anyone in Sweden. Even the women involved have never claimed that.

[ichkeria]

The mystery to me is why any female would want to go near him.
First time I saw him interviewed he came across as Creep Central ..
Maybe that should be his defence lol