[governance] EU official tells Julian Assange 'just go to Sweden'

[Riaz K Tayob]

So what exactly are you saying? For instance is the treatment of Bradley 
Manning ok? Or is the UN Special Rapporteur a conspiracy theorist also 
for calling that treatment inhuman, cruel and degrading?


On 2012/12/04 11:46 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Riaz K Tayob [04/12/12 11:43 +0200]:
>> [In some jurisdictions, even a suggestion of considering to consent 
>> to possible torture (as defined by the UN special rapporteur) would 
>> be horrifying. Hannah Arendt was right about the banality fo evil, 
>> right... or is that too Manichean? Malmstrom seems not to be aware 
>> that after the European Court of Human Rights judges disavowed 
>> themselves of the role of guardians against torture (American prisons 
>> are rosy places according to their findings), or maybe she is VERY 
>> aware... as the poem goes "first they came for..."  ]
>
> Torture? Swedish jails are hotel suites compared to US prisons, and US
> prisons are heaven compared to a jail in India, say - which are probably
> better than the jails in some other countries.
>
> https://www.google.co.in/search?q=swedish+prisons
>
> I must say that I have stayed at worse places as a student on a budget.
>


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