Jeff Sessions seems to have said he wants to arrest Assange although there is no arrest warrant nor are there any charges against him in the United States. Sessions needs an arrest warrant and Assange must be physically in a place where U.S. law can be enforced. No one in the United Kingdom is subject to the laws of the United States. Sessions will need an Extradition Order that is valid in the United Kingdom because the United States is prohibited from arresting people in other countries. Otherwise everyone would be subject to the legal systems in every country in the world regardless of where they were.

Assange sought and was given refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London because he could not travel to Sweden because he would be subject to arrest there on alleged rape charges. the Swedish investigation has been closed so there are no charges against Assange in Sweden.
Assange is apparently free to leave the Ecudorean Embassy so far as Sweden is concerned however there is an outstanding U.K. arrest warrant for him related to the Swedish investigation which is no longer active.
In addition Attorney General Jeff Sessions want’s to arrest Assange although he hasn’t said why.
While in the Ecuadorian Embassy Assange has published classified U.S. information. Since Assange is not an American citizen the American Constitution does not protect him.

Assange still faces legal jeopardy in the US, where a 2010 grand jury investigation found that there was sufficient evidence to bring charges against him in relation to his publication of documents leaked to him in 2010 by Chelsea Manning. Manning was released from prison by President Obama. Although US authorities asserted in 2013 that no charges had actually been filed against Assange at that point, this could change, and at any time Assange could find himself facing a US arrest warrant despite the fact that Chelsea Manning is no longer in prison for giving Assange classified material.
A United Nations group has called Assange detention arbitrary.
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said in a statement released today that UK authorities should let Assange leave the embassy and that both the UK and Sweden should compensate him for what it said was an “arbitrary” or prohibited detention.

“Having concluded that there was a continuous deprivation of liberty, the Working Group … found that the detention was arbitrary because he was held in isolation during the first stage of detention and because of the lack of diligence by the Swedish Prosecutor in its investigations, which resulted in the lengthy detention of Mr. Assange,” the UN group wrote in its report. The group said that Sweden and the UK should “assess the situation of Mr. Assange to ensure his safety and physical integrity, to facilitate the exercise of his right to freedom of movement in an expedient manner, and to ensure the full enjoyment of his rights guaranteed by the international norms on detention.” The group didn’t elaborate on the nature of the compensation Assange should receive.

The lesson for the rest of us is don’t try to reveal information that is detrimental or unkind about certain governments. Truth is not a defense against a determined government.

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