Julian helped jail pedophiles in Australia in the 1990s. He also helped Icelandic police convict Sigurdur Thordarson on multiple counts of child abuse. One of Thordarson's child victims committed suicide. (Thread)
Thordarson went on his child abuse crime spree while working as an informant for the US government. At his trial, he was diagnosed as a psychopath by the court-appointed psychiatrist. He was also convicted of forgery and fraud against numerous businesses and @wikileaks.
After Thordarson was released from prison in Iceland, the US government flew him to Washington DC again, where he became the "star witness" against #Assange. The US government gets someone who will say and do anything. Thordarson takes revenge on the man who put him in prison.
In the fraud case, Thordarson was literally convicted of fabricating documents from Julian and impersonating him online to other businesses in order to steal $50.000 from Wikileaks.
In other words, the worst elements of the US government are working hand-in-hand with a convicted pedophile both to destroy the First Amendment and to silence Julian, the man who exposed the crimes of all of them.
Spoke to Julian. A friend of his killed himself in the early hours of this morning. His body is still in the cell on Julian's wing. Julian is devastated.
Manoel Santos was gay. He'd lived in UK for 20 years. The Home Office served him with a deportation notice to Brazil.(Thread)
Julian wants to express his condolences to Manoel's friends and family.
Julian tells me Manoel was an excellent tenor. He helped Julian read letters in Portuguese, and he was a friend.
He feared deportation to Brazil after 20 years, being gay put him at risk where he was from.
Julian hopes there will be an investigation into the deportation decision at @ukhomeoffice. Manoel was at high risk. His suicide was foreseeable. An inquiry into his case might prevent future suicides.
I spoke to Julian today. At any moment we expect that the US will drop its existing extradition request and then re-arrest him on the very same 18 charges, under a different extradition request.
We don't know if this means he'll be brought to court to be 're-arrested'. (Thread)
The DoJ had been given a deadline by Westminster Magistrates Court to finalise any further extradition requests by 14 June 2019.
That makes the latest superseding indictment 14 months late.
It was publicised on the DoJ website on 24 June 2020, over a month ago.
5 weeks have passed since the DoJ publicised its indictment (with no new charges) but the US has so far made no attempt to incorporate it into the UK jurisdiction.
Hence lawyers have been working on arguments & evidence in relation to an effectively defunct extradition request.