Assange Watch

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 08 Jan 2015, 19:00

Will Sweden be sent to the naughty step later this month?

file:///C:/Users/biffvernon/Downloads/file.pdf

Sorry, rather a lot of words! It comes in response to https://wikileaks.org/59-International- ... tions.html

Blue Peter · Post by **Blue Peter** » 09 Jan 2015, 09:47

biffvernon wrote:Will Sweden be sent to the naughty step later this month?

file:///C:/Users/biffvernon/Downloads/file.pdf

Sorry, rather a lot of words! It comes in response to https://wikileaks.org/59-International- ... tions.html

Is this url just for the GCHQ people who presumably have access to your c: drive

Peter.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 09 Jan 2015, 13:07

Ooops! Er, I'll try to fix that.

Try this:
http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/ ... penElement

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 09 Jan 2015, 13:19

Oh! That's not the right one. It's document number A/HRC/WG.6/21/SWE/2, whereas the original document that wikileaks linked to in their tweet yesterday was A/HRC/WG.6/21/SWE/3 and that link appears now to be broken and the document in not in the list at http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/alldocs.aspx

Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice said to the Cheshire Cat.

This was the tweet in question, about 18.30 last evening, but the link now gives the message

Sorry, that file is unavailable
We're sorry, but the file you are requesting has exceeded its maximum download count. As a result, we are unable to provide the file to you.

WikiLeaks @wikileaks · 19h 19 hours ago
Sweden faces sharp criticism at its upcoming UN human rights review (Jan 26) http://filebin.ca/1nSu53gMZQi7/file.pdf … More: https://wikileaks.org/59-International- ... tions.html …⁰⁰ #svpol

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 09 Jan 2015, 13:35

These are the key paragraphs in which the UN criticises Sweden:

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 09 Jan 2015, 13:40

Ah, I have found a copy of the document United Nations A/HRC/WG.6/21/SWE/3
that is neither on my nor GCHQ's hard dreive!

Yo for the Hazel Press:
http://hazelpress.org/unhrc-sweden-assange/4587877814

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 17 Feb 2015, 14:40

Is Sweden's Offensive Against Assange Unraveling?

Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London in June 2012. He sought asylum in Ecuador, and that country granted him refugee status. However, the UK refuses to grant him safe passage out of London, so he can travel to Ecuador. Instead it has spent more than £9 million to guard the Ecuadorean Embassy. This is more than what the UK has spent on investigating its own complicity in human rights abuses in Iraq.

I hope Assange gets to sue the fụck out of both Britain and Sweden.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 17 Feb 2015, 17:00

Yes but why would the UK has spend more on investigating its own complicity in human rights abuses in Iraq than the cost of a large carpet and sweeping brush?

PS_RalphW · Post by **PS_RalphW** » 13 Mar 2015, 09:45

Sweden blinked

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/m ... -interview

Swedish prosecutors are set to question Julian Assange in his London refuge after the lead prosecutor bowed to pressure from his lawyers, Swedish legal opinion and the courts to attempt to break the deadlock in the case.

After Snowden, does anybody even remember Julian?

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 13 Mar 2015, 09:47

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31867829

Swedish prosecutors have offered to travel to London to question Wikileaks founder Julian Assange over sex assault allegations.

A Swedish prosecutor explained the change of strategy by saying potential charges against Mr Assange would expire under the statute of limitations in August.

"My view has always been that to perform an interview with him at the Ecuadorean embassy in London would lower the quality of the interview, and that he would need to be present in Sweden in any case should there be a trial in the future," lead prosecutor Marianne Ny said in a statement.

"Now that time is of the essence, I have viewed it therefore necessary to accept such deficiencies in the investigation and likewise take the risk that the interview does not move the case forward."

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 13 Mar 2015, 10:01

That Ny bod sounds like one tough cookie.

Ms Ny is a well known feminist. For example, she is known to have said that when a woman says she has been assaulted by a man, the man ought to be detained because it is not until he is in prison that the woman may have the peace to consider whether or not she has been mistreated. Ms Ny has stated that she believes that imprisoning the man has a positive effect, "even in cases where the perpetrator is prosecuted but not convicted". It is also informative, in regards to the presumption of innocence, that she uses the term ’perpetrator’ rather than ’defendant’ or ’suspect’ in discussing criminal investigation in rape cases."

From the Justice for Assange website

Based upon what I've garnered over the last five (!) years, I'd say Assange appears innocent and would walk free of any neutral court.

If that's the case, he should sue the bejaysus out of Sweden and Britain.

PS_RalphW · Post by **PS_RalphW** » 13 Mar 2015, 10:25

There is no doubt that he has not committed any crime under UK law.

That is not to say he is entirely a nice character, but if the Swedish plan was an ad hominim attack on Assange for the (pre Snowden) Wikileaks revelations to divert attention, then they have succeeded beyond any reasonable expectation.

However, now he is an irrelevant sideshow. He has been out of the MSM long enough to quietly let him go. In the public mind he is that nasty piece of work running from a rape convection, not a shining knight of freedom like Snowden.

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 13 Mar 2015, 10:32

emordnilap wrote:That Ny bod sounds like one tough cookie.

Ms Ny is a well known feminist. For example, she is known to have said that when a woman says she has been assaulted by a man, the man ought to be detained because it is not until he is in prison that the woman may have the peace to consider whether or not she has been mistreated. Ms Ny has stated that she believes that imprisoning the man has a positive effect, "even in cases where the perpetrator is prosecuted but not convicted". It is also informative, in regards to the presumption of innocence, that she uses the term ’perpetrator’ rather than ’defendant’ or ’suspect’ in discussing criminal investigation in rape cases."

Sounds like it is she who would benefit from some time in the clinker. People like this give feminism a bad name.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 13 Mar 2015, 10:32

PS_RalphW wrote:In the public mind he is that nasty piece of work running from a rape convection, not a shining knight of freedom like Snowden.

That's over-the-top harsh and totally unwarranted Ralph and I will not be lumped in with this 'public mind' of yours - he's not running from a rape conviction at all. He's never been charged with an offence and the women involved have said quite clearly he didn't rape them; that was made up by the police.

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 13 Mar 2015, 10:34

PS_RalphW wrote: However, now he is an irrelevant sideshow. He has been out of the MSM long enough to quietly let him go.

Except that before very long he would turn up in Ecuador and set out to exact revenge on the US, UK and Swedish authorities.