LRB on Assange

The text in Dagens Nyheter swedish juridical system and Assange has gotten some international attention, like this in London Review of Books. Their tweet for the article says:

Assange’s criticisms of Swedish legal system not wrong, say Swedish lawyers http://bit.ly/kUe75V #wikileaks

Well what LRB miss is the word “part”. As in “part of Assange’s criticism not wrong”. A quick translation of parts of the original swedish text.

“He [Assange] is partially right about the Swedish legal system, and that should improve”.

“At first we want to make clear that we believe that his [assange's] criticism all in all is unsound, Sweden has a well functioning juridicial system and in many aspects a model internationally”

“Its also possible that Assange, fullfil all the criteria for a true «rättshaverist»” (rättshaverist is a swedish word for a person who obsessively feels wronged, particularly about minor causes of action.)

LRB writes:

Yesterday’s Dagens Nyheter carried an article by two leading Swedish lawyers on the Assange extradition case.

The authors (Jens Lapidus and Johan Åkermark) are rightly famous, but a relevant detail is that they also work in the same firm as Assanges lawyer Björn Hurtig. (see http://forsvarsadvokaterna.se/Jurister.htm )

Printed from: http://www.kolchi.se/lrb-on-assange/ .
© Kolchi 2012.

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