[governance] Julian Assange extradition: Ecuador 'willing to co-operate' with Britain

[Roland Perry]

In message <5032DAEB.8020104 at gmx.net>, at 07:48:43 on Tue, 21 Aug 2012, 
Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net> writes

>>> " For more than 19 months now, the Swedish government has refused to 
>>>explain why he could not be questioned in the UK."
>>>
>>> Why not calm the storm by responding to this 19 month old question?
>>
>> As far as I'm aware the questioning they want to do has to be done in 
>>front of what's generically described as an "investigating magistrate" 
>>(and not the police) and therefore has to be on that magistrate's home 
>>territory.
>Thanks for the revelation - still extremely surprised that the Swedish 
>government did not give this information for 19 months! But now, thanks 
>to this information on our list, the world can know and relax.
>
>Still deeply wondering why the world had to wait for 19 months until 
>finally our list breaks the silence.

The Swedish Government is not trying to keep the mechanisms of its 
criminal justice system secret, but neither does the media seem to 
understand the routine procedure in Sweden.

-- 
Roland Perry

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