<story><title>Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wikileaks-assange-sweden-prosecutor/sweden-reopens-assange-rape-investigation-to-seek-extradition-idUSKCN1SJ0UZ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tarcyanm</author><text>Assange himself and the rape charges have been politicized to such an extent that I find it essentially meaningless to pontificate about what may or may not have happened in Sweden. His character has been debated endlessly, but when one thinks of what WikiLeaks has actually revealed, I find it totally likely that a systematic effort was made to curtail him:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;SomersetBean&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1116916146458877952&amp;#x2F;photo&amp;#x2F;1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;SomersetBean&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1116916146458877952&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wikileaks-assange-sweden-prosecutor/sweden-reopens-assange-rape-investigation-to-seek-extradition-idUSKCN1SJ0UZ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seanalltogether</author><text>&amp;gt; “His attitude is that he is happy to cooperate with Sweden and that he wants to be interviewed and that he wants to clear his name,” Samuelson told Reuters.&lt;p&gt;He spent how many years on both UK soil and then the Ecuadorean embassy to fight these Swedish allegations and now he&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;happy to cooperate&amp;quot;. He&amp;#x27;s imprisoned himself all these years for nothing.</text></comment>