Or they never had any strong charges to begin with and the whole plan was to hand over Assange to the US, just Assange said.

This is a copy of a dead comment. Not mine.

To hand him over to the US they would, under EU law, need the UK's permission. So it would be harder to hand him over from Sweden than from the UK, and the latter is well-known for being America's lapdog. If the accausation is false, why did they not make it in the UK instead of Sweden and make things easier?

You can vouch for dead comments if you believe they are contributing to the conversation. Click on the timestamp to see if the option is available, I'd imagine it is karma dependent.

I know my vouching ability was taken away for reasons never really clear to me.

Why is he in police custody? Excuse my ignorance, I don't know a lot about him other than he's a popular whistleblower who was involved in WikiLeaks. Is he in police custody for that?

>Excuse my ignorance

I really, really want to be mean to you, but I'll copy and paste the second and third sentences from the article.

Assange, who denies the accusation, has avoided extradition to Sweden for seven years after seeking refuge at the Ecuadorean embassy in London in 2012.

The 48-year-old Australian was evicted in April and sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions.

I mixed up Snowden + Assange, thank you for not being mean. :)

This video from UN Special Rapporteur on Torture may be helpful

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/22/nils_melzer_julian_a...