Assange Voluntarily Enters the Legal System -- But When Does He Come Out?
Right now, people are demonstrating outside a British court, where Wikileaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange will most likely receive bail and a court date, according to the American papers, or, according to the English papers, he will enter the European fast-tracked extradition system. Assange turned himself in early this morning local time on Swedish charges, described by the (British) police as “one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape, all alleged to have been committed in August 2010.” One interesting thing to note, according to the Guardian: “If extradited to Sweden under the European Arrest Warrant — a process which could be concluded quickly under the fast-track procedure — Assange will be vulnerable to other extradition requests from countries including the US.”