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		peteretep on April 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Julian Assange arrested in London A central tenet of the UK legal system is that people on bail don't get to unilaterally decide they should just be able to skip it.

DanBC on April 11, 2019 [–]

Also, the victims of crime don't get to "press charges" ro "drop charges", that's for the CPS.

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