I think there was sufficient publicity given to the contrived construction of the ensuing charges in Sweden that complying with a patently false extradition request was a farce. Strange we do not deport criminals in case their precious human rights are abused yet the slightest whiff of politics and it is all systems go.
Perhaps the UK government should remember how our allies act!
"In USA v Mackin,45 for example, the UK requested the return of the applicant from the US for offences related to the attempted murder of a British soldier in Northern Ireland. Extradition was refused on the basis that the offences listed in the extradition request amounted to political offences"

Assange certainly pissed off a raft of politicos. I think he deserves a medal with bar. A medal for hacking them off and a bar for publicising their secrets.