Offering to not be extradited to a specific third country on a specific charge would be the furthest possible thing from a blanket guarantee.

It's of course entirely their prerogative to not offer any guarantees at all.

It is similarly "illegal" for many other countries to offer any guarantees that the suspect wont face torture.

> It's of course entirely their prerogative to not offer any guarantees at all.

If Assange wanted to have a guarantee of not being extradited he should have submitted an application for this to the Swedish justice department and have it reviewed. That's what the law require. The prosecutor or politicians cannot offer any guarantees and trying to bypass the procedure would be breaking the law.

So no, it's not their prerogative. Stop spreading misinformation, it's tiresome.

It's absolutely their prerogative to give him a guarantee.

Or, they can choose to undermine their credibility as a champion of human rights by providing no guarantees of humane treatment to any person under extradition.

Many countries opt to follow this route (not nice countries, mind) and thus voluntarily "fail" to extradite a great number of guilty people as a result. Refusal to respect human rights often comes at a cost.

Sweden's hands were not tied on this issue and it was a reasonable request. The reasonableness and the apparent politically motivated intransigence of the Swedish justice system (something noted by eagle eyed GCHQ employees in leaked emails) is a large part of why the application for asylum was approved.

This is also probably why he made the offer ~30 times.

> It's absolutely their prerogative to give him a guarantee.

By breaking the law? You can't just request something from a prosecutor. You have to follow the process for these kinds of things. The prosecutor has no right to grant what he requested, so how do you propose he would do it?

The prosecutor who was in close contact with politicia s passes it up the chain of command.

The prosecutors may have made a show of being apolitical but they made a lot of unprecedented exceptions for this case.

> The prosecutor who was in close contact with politicia s passes it up the chain of command.

There's no one up the chain of command who is allowed to make the decision. The justice department or the politicians does not have the rights to grant this. You would know this if you had basic knowledge about how Sweden is governed.

It is funny how you claim that there wee unprecedented exceptions for this case when you clearly know zero on the topic. It's an embarrassing read, honestly.