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ErrantX on May 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: WikiLeaks' Assange gets Australian peace prize

That can only happen if the British authorities approve, though. So if the US wanted him there is, legally, no practical difference trying to extradite him from the UK or Sweden.

So it seems unlikely.

I think the rumour started as part of the general theory that the Sweden allegations were a conspiracy by the US to discredit him.

nickik on May 11, 2011 | [–]

legally there is no diffrence but his lawyers say that its much harder to extadite him from england than from sweden so thats where he wants to stay.

uriel on May 11, 2011 | [–]

He himself has admitted it would be much easier for the US to extradite him from the UK than from Sweden.

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