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It's easy to gin up outrage by trying to reframe basic mechanisms of the justice systems of pretty much every modern country as abnormal or abusive. For instance, the notion that you can be extradited to face charges seems banal, until you introduce the notion that someone might want to "face their charges" in a totally different country over video link.


Fact check: Assange does not face charges.


No, he doesn't, because under Swedish law he can't be indicted until he's confronted by prosecutors.




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