This email is addressed to Karin Olsson. I am commenting on her piece which was translated in English and published in the Guardian London today about her view on Julian Assange. Your piece is enlightening as I know very little of the sexual harrasment case in the Swedish court. In my opinion, what Julian has done by exposing the world leaders is a great service to freedom of speech and especially to victims of wrong decisons such as war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Is it not the time of the Swedesh case is suspect so he may have a genuine fear. One can argue that Sweden will not extradite him to USA but you have a treaty, and I find most European countries including the one where I live are almost political slave to the USA. How an individual can be assured of fair trial. Then I wonder that in the developed country sometime justice is either not done or delayed for years and years.

I would appreciate if you could send me a link on the sexual harrasment case against Julian so I can read more about it.

Shahid Syed , London

shahid_214@hotmail.com

Pretty useless article on the Guardian, sorry to say that. I am not saying you missed the point on the fact that it MIGHT be fair and safe for Assange to go to Sweden. Point is, it also might be not. I don’t even believe in a conspiracy theory, but that now the US are going to use any possible mean to get him, and that Sweden might well cede to their pressure, it’s a quite reasonable worry for him and make it very comprehensible his decision. Ironically, Sweden is losing quitea lot of friends around the world as well.

Det är inte något trick av Assange. Han litar inte helt enkelt på det på svenska rättsystemet efter vad har hänt i Sverige. Alla samarbete med USA och CIA och utskickandet av Egyptier under Mubaraks regim med CIA flyg till Egypten, till Tortyr. Även skandaler med Quicks rättegångar där både rättsystemet, åklagaren och advokater gjorde misstag.