UK Parliament calls for prioritization of Assange's extradition to Sweden

After his arrest, the fate of Julian Assange This is a stranger. However, most agree that the worst thing that can happen to the founder of WikiLeaks is to send him to the United States to judge him, among other things, by leaks of information about them. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Faced with this situation, 70 members of the British Parliament planned to send a letter to the Minister of the Interior, Sajid Javid, by asking him to give priority to the extradition of the Australian to Sweden before the United States.

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"We are writing to ask you make every effort to support an action to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden in case Sweden requests extradition ", begins the letter shared by the Labor Party Stella Creasy.

The letter was also sent to Diane Abbot, spokesperson for the Labor Party in the Interior, to clarify Twitter "Assange does not ask for bail in the United Kingdom and no case of rape raised by the Swedish authorities should be ignored, but the only request for extradition comes from the United States ".

Assange faces charges of rape of one woman and badual harbadment of another, at a conference in Stockholm in 2010.

From the British prosecutor's office informed that two extradition requests from different countries on the same personit will be the Minister of the Interior who will decide which will be applied taking into account various aspects, such as the seriousness of the crimes, the date of the requests and the place where the crimes were committed, etc.

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