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Julian Assange jailed for 50 weeks over Ecuador embassy bail-jumping

Kabukiwookie

Most bail jumpers aren't publicly hiding in the middle of the capital city.

By this logic, the judge should have been more lenient if he had just hidden out of sight then?

He expressly asked for asylum in an embassy because he was fearing extradition due to political reasons.

If he had been 'just another rapist', don't you think he'd done a runner instead?

The Swedish prosecutor could have visited him or have had a video conference at any time. The fact that she didn't and has been reprimanded for this unusual behaviour back in Sweden, gives a strong air of a set up by the US.

Either that or the Swedish prosecutor was completely incompetent.

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