Thread by @olabini

There has been a lot of abuse, violations, harassment and downright illegal things happening in my case. But not all of it has been directed at me. Many people around me have also been subjected to this. In this thread I want to document some of these incidents. 1/

Just to be clear, these are just a few of these kinds of incidents - there are more than I could detail here - in fact, it's been so much that I don't even remember most of them. But let's jump in to them. 2/

One of the strongest examples of this kind of harassment relates to a perito named Fabián Hurtado. A perito is an expert in some field, who has a certification from the judicial system in Ecuador to work as an expert in legal cases. 3/

We contracted Hurtado to help us write a report describing how Tor works, how public and private IP addresses work, and analyzing the famous picture in my case with this information in mind. He wrote this report for us, and it was added to the file in August 2019. 4/

One week after the report was added to the file, in the middle of the night on September 5, 2019, the Ecuadorean police and prosecutors raided his home. 10 people broke down his door & entered with drawn weapons. They never rang the bell. They took his computer and cell phone. 5/

They claimed that they had legal right to raid the apartment, but never actually showed any order. They didn't allow him to call a lawyer. Before this event, Hurtado reports having seen strange people outside his house, asking questions. 6/

You might ask yourself what kind of extreme crime this expert was suspected of, to warrant 10 people breaking down his door and entering with drawn weapons. He must have been a really dangerous criminal, right? He must have done something extremely serious! 7/

This perito, who had taken part in 49 expert testimonies and reports until this point, was raided because the prosecution claims he had lied on his CV. The government has now stripped him of his license to practice as an expert, depriving him of his livelihood. 8/

The same night as I was illegally detained at the airport, my lawyers were stopped several times by cops. At one point, the cops communicated with the prosecutor in my case. In another case, the police demanded to search the car of my lawyers, without giving a reason. 9/

About a month or two after I came out from prison, the car of one of my training partners was broken into. That's not so strange - but what is strange was that nothing of value was taken. 10/

In the same time period, my martial arts teacher was followed through half the city by a car using a "laser pointer", and several motor cycles. This chase began at the dojo after we had just finished training. 11/

When I was in prison, the people coming to visit were regularly harassed in different ways. Sometimes they were asked weird questions, another time a woman was covertly photographed while almost naked. None of these things are regular procedure. 12/

While I was in prison, a cop was parked outside my apartment at all times, blocking anyone from entering the apartment. There didn't exist an order for this, and the apartment was never considered a crime scene, so this was not legal at all. 13/

When I came out of prison, this continued for several weeks until we managed to finally get access. We still haven't been able to find out who gave the order to illegally block access to the apartment for three months, having a cop placed there at all times. 14/

As I've mentioned before, the office of CAD was broken into. There are too many weird things to tell about this break-in, but suffice to say that most valuables were not taken, all of our papers were rifled through, and nothing is visible on _any_ of the security tapes. 15/

My lawyers offices have also been burglared several times during the last year, each time with nothing apparently taken. A Saturday a few weeks ago, the building manager contacted my lawyers, saying that some person had asked to be let in. 16/

This person claimed that the lawyers had asked him to come in to the office and clean it. Of course, my lawyers didn't know anything about this. 17/

Attempts to interfere and listen in on my conversations with my lawyers have been pretty common place. It started while in prison, when we observed a person having a hidden microphone inside his shirt hanging out as close to us as he could... 18/

There have been repeated instances of people contacting my lawyers, claiming they have secret information of different kinds. The same kinds of things have happened to my parents. 19/

There have also been attempts to convince my lawyers to help other people, doing "favours" in a way that would be corrupt and illegal - which they didn't do, of course. These kinds of attempts have never happened to them before, but are now happening. 20/

As I mentioned, these are just some examples of everything that has happened in the 20 months since I was illegally detained. It is clear that the government is working hard to try to intimidate and attack us in any way they can. 21/

It is also clear that they are desperate, trying to attack us in all these weird ways. But at the same time, all this harassment is something that the people around me are subjected to. It's very frustrating that my friends are subject to all this. 22/22