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Why Are People Hating on Julian Assange? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I thought he was like one of the most important whistleblowers of our time exposing war crimes and shit. Some of you don't wanna see him live another day, why is that?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The US (and Canada, where I live) has an extradition treaty with Romania.

The US treaty does mention that

...neither Party shall refuse extradition based on the citizenship of the person sought.

But I haven't read it in detail so that may or may not be relevant (the past I quoted is referring to a particular part of the treaty).

My understand is that typically the threshold for extradition is mutual criminality which I suppose is my answer to how US law applies itself outside US territories (because leaking state secrets is a crime in most countries). So I withdraw my inquiry.

If Romania declared Borat a state secret pirates could perhaps be extradited.

But also note that I don't think Assange can be charged with treason, because he isn't American.