And Sweden was like "uhmmmm.... nope, we need to leave that option open" and the media made fun of him for being paranoid and delusional.
Correa gave him asylum for a reason. It's too bad Moreno decided to cancel the asylum to score some points with the US.
I don't know if he knew that or not, but it's kinda weird he didn't flea to the embassy until his extradition to Sweden was imminent. The UK could've arrested him for extradition to the US any day he was out on bail.
It's a lot easier to fight an extradition as a free man... even if that freedom is notional (being holed up in an embassy).
Because the prosecutor can't give any such blanket guarantees. That would be illegal.
Assange obviously knew this and tried to play the media, which failed.
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.
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.
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.
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 prosecutors may have made a show of being apolitical but they made a lot of unprecedented exceptions for this case.
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.