Thread by @Williamrt

The court is about to start its tenth day of hearings into Julian Assange. I am joining by remote video link for @ComputerWeekly. I will post updates here during the day between taking notes. #Assange

@ComputerWeekly Professor Christian Grothoff is about to give evidence, a computer security specialist #Assange

@ComputerWeekly WikiLeaks was attacked by denial of service attacks from November 2010.

@ComputerWeekly WikiLeaks DNS provider decided to terminate WikiLeaks' DNS service because the denial of service attack was affecting other customers

@ComputerWeekly In summary: many people made mirrors of WikiLeaks. Some of them contained encrypted copies of US government documents.

@ComputerWeekly The German newspaper Der Frietag published an article stating that the password has been made public [in a book by David Leigh] and that there were copies of encrypted US cables on mirror servers #Assange

@ComputerWeekly Cryptome, a well known web site in the US published decrypted versions of the WikiLeaks documents. Another websitemade a searchable copy. #Asssange

@ComputerWeekly Report from Friday: WikiLeaks video ‘electrified’ public to civilian war deaths, court hears bit.ly/3hNbjHS via @ComputerWeekly #Assange

@ComputerWeekly Court breaks for 15 minutes to allow Profesor Grothoff time to locate a tweet pointing to evidence of publication of unredacted WikiLeaks cables on a website mrkva.eu #Assange

@ComputerWeekly Grothoff has now told the court he has found the tweet and asks how he can submit it in evidence. #Assange

@ComputerWeekly Court takes a break to allow defence counsel to take instructions from #Assange

@ComputerWeekly Case starts again.# Assange. Summers is going over Grothoff's chronology

@ComputerWeekly Court breaks for lunch until 2:10. It is not clear whether a witness will be available this afternoon. #Assange

@ComputerWeekly Edward Fitzgerald QC said that the slippage in the hearing due to a Covid scare meant that evidence will be heard up until next Friday, not leaving time for closing submissions. #Assange

@ComputerWeekly Joel Smith proposed each side submits written closing statements and spends half a day giving verbal submissions #Assange

@ComputerWeekly Defence counsel said it will move on to hearing medical witnesses over the next three days #Assange

@ComputerWeekly Report from Friday's evidence: WikiLeaks cables showed US interfer:ed in German torture investigation bit.ly/3mBOLNM via @ComputerWeekly #Assange

@ComputerWeekly People are coming back into the court. It looks like the hearing will resume shortly. #Assange

@ComputerWeekly Thirty minute recess to allow prosecution and defence to discuss which witness they agree could have their statements accepted without cross examination #assange

@ComputerWeekly James Lewis QC for the prosecution objected to calling journalist Andy Worthington to give evidence. He said he had only been informed this morning and had not had time to prepare cross examination. #assange

@ComputerWeekly The defence said that Andy Worthington's evidence would say that prisoners were held in Guantanamo on the basis of evidence extracted under torture from other Gitmo prisoners #assange

@ComputerWeekly Judge Baraitser asked whether she was expected to make a ruling on whether or not prisoners in Guantanamo were tortured. #assange

@ComputerWeekly Lewis for the prosecution said the the US was not party to a case in Strasbourg that made findings on torture in Gitmo and does not accept that evidence #assange

@ComputerWeekly The judge said that it feels like witnesses are being called on a piecemeal basis. Witnesses are being called in an ad-hoc way #assange

@ComputerWeekly Defence said that both sides had agreed a list of witnesses where they agreed there was scope for agreement. #assange

@ComputerWeekly Lewis said that many of the witnesses were repetitive. if we challenge one we have to challenge them all. It would be different if they were all giving evidence on different issues #assange

@ComputerWeekly Lewis said it was not always clear what point each witness was being used to make. #Assnge

@ComputerWeekly Lewis said it was not helped by 200 page submissions from the defence [listing what points were being made by each witness]#Assange

@ComputerWeekly Judge Baraitser is back in court. The defence team has arrived and has asked for the rest of the day to continue discussions with prosecution team. #assange

@ComputerWeekly The defence team agrees to report back at 4pm on progress #Assange