Matthew Garrett on Nostr: 5) "This was an obvious pretext so he could be extradited to the US" - under Swedish ...

5) "This was an obvious pretext so he could be extradited to the US" - under Swedish law, if a non-EU country asks that someone who was extradited to Sweden be extradited from Sweden, this can only occur if the country the person was extradited from agrees - ie, if Assange were extradited to Sweden from the UK, and if the US then requested he be extradited, the UK would need to agree. Given the US just requested he be extradited from the UK anyway, there's no obvious reason to complicate it.