@lawfareblog @hilary_hurd Hi there! It's great you are taking interest in this complex case -- there is a lot of inaccurate information out there and some have informed some parts of your piece. For example, The asylum was granted from US extradition & cooperation with Swedish authorities...
@lawfareblog @Hilary_Hurd ...led to his finally being questioned at the embassy in November 2016 (the prosecutor had refused until finally compelled by Sweden's Court of Appeal in 2015, which reprimanded her for failing to progress the preliminary investigation). Assange's statement included exculpatory..
@lawfareblog @Hilary_Hurd ...SMS messages from the women's phones. The prosecutor dropped not only the arrest warrant, but the entire investigation, and the prosecution office has destroyed the records, according to FOI request replies. The prosecutor's statements which you make reference to were a ...
@lawfareblog @Hilary_Hurd face-saving exercise in a press conference where she spoke to the world's press, and such arguments were not made in her statement to the court. Instead, she referenced the section of Sweden's 2015 Supreme Court's judgment referencing "proportionality", ie it failed that test...
@lawfareblog @Hilary_Hurd The statements by the prosecutor at the press conference have been excoriated by the Swedish legal community, because she continued to cast suspicion even as she closed the investigation, and blamed Assange even when the Swedish courts had reprimanded her for failing her duty...
@lawfareblog @Hilary_Hurd Here is one such critique from a retired senior prosecutor dagensjuridik.se/2017/05/fel-av…. Sweden never initiated a charge against Assange, and the arrest warrant was disproportionate as there was no decision to prosecute, so much so that it led to UK reform in the Extradition Act 2003.
@lawfareblog @Hilary_Hurd Your article also fails to mention the two international decisions that have found in Mr. Assange's favour: the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found in December 2015 that Mr. Assange was arbitrarily detained in the embassy and that his liberty should be immediately...
@lawfareblog @Hilary_Hurd restored and he should be compensated by Sweden and the UK: ohchr.org/Documents/Issu…. Sweden did not appeal the decision. The UK applied for the decision to be reviewed, but lost in late 2016. The second decision is by the Interamerican Court on Human Rights, which is a seminal...
@lawfareblog @Hilary_Hurd decision concerning the nature and scope of asylum in international law, and will have a significant impact on the interpretation in law of Mr. Assange's international protection. corteidh.or.cr/docs/comunicad…
Julian Assange's situation in the embassy has been widely reported to be...
Julian Assange's situation in the embassy has been widely reported to be...
@lawfareblog @Hilary_Hurd "internet cut off" but this is a gross understatement of the situation: he has been refused access to visitors and jammers have been installed inside the embassy to prevent phone signals and internet access, a situation Dinah PoKempner (@HRW's General Counsel) has likened to....
@lawfareblog @Hilary_Hurd @hrw solitary confinement: . It is a situation eight years in the making and more information is coming out as time goes on. Recently, The Guardian reported the UK's role in prolonging Mr. Assange's confinement in the embassy: the UK Crown Prosecution Service...
@lawfareblog @Hilary_Hurd @hrw The Guardian revealed CPS pressured Sweden into reversing its decision into closing the Assange investigation in 2013: theguardian.com/media/2018/feb….
They also exposed CPS engaged in an extraordinary perversion of the course of justice destroying key documents theguardian.com/media/2017/nov…
They also exposed CPS engaged in an extraordinary perversion of the course of justice destroying key documents theguardian.com/media/2017/nov…
@lawfareblog @Hilary_Hurd @hrw The exculpatory SMS messages came to light in 2016 from the phone of the woman where she said she "felt railroaded by police and others" who "made up the charges" and "wanted to get Assange", and she "didn't want to accuse him of anything". The details of the case are fascinating
@lawfareblog @Hilary_Hurd @hrw and it is encouraging to see people developing expertise in this case as more and more information is set to come to light. I hope many people will be inspired to look into the detail of this deeply politicised case and its many irregularities. More: see justice4assange.com
