Comment by belorn

4 years ago

Sweden and Uk spent tens of millions dealing with extradition case for just getting a hearing over an accusation with similar amount of evidence.

Technically the legal system could do the same in her case.

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btilly  4 years ago

Piss off a superpower, and you'd be ASTOUNDED at how far backwards law enforcement will bend to take any complaint about you seriously.

I would not take Julian Assange's situation as indicative of anything other than that Assange made powerful enemies.

elzbardico  4 years ago

We are not in the 80’s anymore. At least in the western world the police is far more prepared to help victims than in the past. Usually the victim is supported by a female investigator, because differently from the past, at least in bigger cities a sizable portion of the police force are women. We are creating this culture of woman fearing getting help from police by pretending things didn’t change during the last 40 years

  • monocasa  4 years ago

    Counterpoint: a friend of mine was violently raped a decade ago, and I went with her to the hospital the next morning to get an exam and a rape kit to make a complaint. The police both refused to process the rape kit, and threatened to press charges against her for making a false complaint for 'regretting rough sex'. And that was with full on torn genitals, with an exam, violent rape, in a major metropolitan area in the US.

    We haven't come as far as you're making it out to be.

    I actually regret convincing her to go to the hospital and the police as all it did was increase the amount of trauma she experienced.