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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/assange-could-face-execution.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he could face execution in the US if he is extradited to Sweden" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-assange-could-face-execution.jpg" alt="Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he could face execution in the US if he is extradited to Sweden"/></a></p>
<p>Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have said they fear he could face execution in the United States if he is extradited to Sweden.</p>
<p>The 39-year-old whistleblower is wanted by the Swedish authorities over claims that he sexually assaulted two women during a visit to Stockholm in August. But his defence team believe there is a &#8220;real risk&#8221; he could be extradited on to the US.</p>
<p>In a skeleton argument released in the wake of a preparatory legal hearing at Woolwich Crown Court, Assange&#8217;s lawyers suggested that extraditing him to Sweden could also breach Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which bans torture.</p>
<p>They wrote: &#8220;It is submitted that there is a real risk that, if extradited to Sweden, the US will seek his extradition and/or illegal rendition to the USA, where there will be a risk of him being detained at Guantanamo Bay or elsewhere, in conditions which would breach Article 3 of the ECHR.</p>
<p>&#8220;Indeed, if Mr Assange were rendered to the USA without assurances that the death penalty would not be carried out, there is a real risk that he could be made subject to the death penalty.&#8221;</p>
<p>Posted on the website of Assange&#8217;s British solicitor, Mark Stephens, the legal documents attack the case for extradition by the Swedish authorities, claiming it is built on an &#8220;improper purpose&#8221; because the European Arrest Warrant appears to have been created to only question Assange, not necessarily prosecute him.</p>
<p>Solicitors also questioned whether Gothenburg prosecutor Marianne Ny is able to issue an arrest warrant and said the Swedish authorities should arrange for him to be questioned in Britain.</p>
<p>The skeleton argument focused on the claims of one of the alleged victims, including a text message in which the woman alleged she was &#8220;half asleep&#8221; at the time of the claimed assault. </p>
<p>Assange&#8217;s solicitors claimed the Swedish authorities have inflated the allegation to suggest she was &#8220;fully asleep&#8221;. They said it was done &#8220;in order to support the making of a rape allegation&#8221; adding that: &#8220;This would in itself constitute prosecutorial abuse.&#8221;</p>
<p>The paperwork goes on to attack Swedish prosecutors for failing to disclose other text messages between the two women which &#8220;speaks of revenge and of the opportunity to make lots of money&#8221;.</p>
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