{"id":267749,"date":"2017-05-19T06:03:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T10:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=267749"},"modified":"2020-08-23T06:06:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T10:06:37","slug":"julian-assange-defiant-as-sweden-drops-rape-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/julian-assange-defiant-as-sweden-drops-rape-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange defiant as Sweden drops rape investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>He should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize\u2026 that would be a way for the Nobel committee to wash their shame of having awarded it to the war criminal Obama.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said he will not forgive and forget attempts to arrest him over rape allegations which led him to seek asylum in Ecuador&#8217;s London embassy.<\/p>\n<p>Hailing an &#8220;important victory&#8221;, he said he was prepared for dialogue with the US and UK authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Assange, 45, is wanted in the US over the leaking of military and diplomatic documents.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden said on Friday it had decided to drop its rape investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Ecuador urged the UK to allow him safe passage out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Wikileaks founder has chosen to remain in the embassy as he fears extradition to Sweden would lead to extradition to the US.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today is an important victory for me and the UN human rights system, but by no means erases seven years of detention without charge&#8230; while my children grew up. That is not something I can forgive or forget,&#8221; he told journalists from a balcony at the embassy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-39979343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-39979343<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: He should be awarded the Nobel Peace Pr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":267750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}