In my earlier post about the cable gate, I was wondering about what could happen if Assange was an Indian releasing dozens of classified documents of Indian politicians.
Well, its all over for now at least for Assange not for the WikiLeaks though. Julian Assange was arrested yesterday in UK (He surrendered himself for facing the sex crime charges against him). Earlier interpol had issued a "Red Notice" against Assange for sex crime raised in Sweden. He was even denied bail with the reason being he has a “nomadic life”, refused to give his address and there is no record of his entry to the UK.
The biggest challenge for him is to escape from the American authorities. Now that British government is considering extraditing Assange to Sweden. If British authorities grant the Swedish request, Assange would be flown to a country that shares a significantly stricter extradition treaty with the United States. Swedish extradition treaty with the United States does not cover crimes that are political and military in nature.
Since Assange is an Australian citizen with a valid Australian passport, the Australian government is in a fix. The supporters of Assange in Australia has planned mass agitation against government if Assange is eventually extradited to the United States. However Australian government has planned to provide Consular support to Assange.
So the moral of the story is you will nailed if you expose someone.
Note: Assange is leading Time Magazine person of the year poll.
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