Yesterday, my lawyers presented an accusation of "process fraud" to the prosecutor of Pichincha. It took several hours to present the complaint - the prosecutors office did not want to accept the accusation when they realized it came from me. 1/6
The accusation itself shows extremely strong evidence that the penal process against me was started with documents that had been manipulated - making the whole penal process completely illegal (even more than it already was, based on all the rights violations). 2/6
This initial accusation names several police officers as the defendents. It is clear from the documents that they acted in a conspiracy. It can be assumed that someone ordered this falsification of documents, but we don't have evidence of whom did this, yet. 3/6
My legal team will work closely with the prosecutor to investigate these crimes, find out the full extent of the conspiracy and all evidence needed to support it. But it's important ot remember that the evidence of the fraud itself is already in the process. 4/6
The evidence is strong enough to show that even before my illegal detention at the airport, this illegal conspiracy had started. In addition to the prosecutor and my legal defense, this seems like the perfect opportunity for investigate journalists to dig in to this material. 5/6
As we have said for over two years, the penal process never had any evidence of wrong doing. I have never committed a crime - I'm innocent. The fact that these people decided to falsify official documents to even start the process against me is even more proof of all this. 6/6

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1 Jul
Yesterday we had the final part of the pre-trial against me. This should have happened in September 2019, but was delayed for a long time, with a range of excuses from the judge. The latest delay was over 6 months long, from the second part of the hearing until the final. 1/25
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As I mentioned a few days ago, a week ago we asked for the judge to be removed from my case, because she has illegally delayed the hearing by such an extreme amount, that it is clear that she has infringed my legal rights for justice. 3/25
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Yesterday, after 7 (!) months, the first stage of the Habeas Data has finally concluded. In theory, we won - at least against CIES, the central intelligence service of Ecuador. In practice, the situation is a lot more complicated. Let me review in this thread what happened. 1/53
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Hard day today. It's been exactly two years since I was illegally detained and imprisoned. Two years of surveillance and harassment. Two years of over 150 rights violations. Two years of no justice. We are still waiting for the pretrial to even finish.
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Of course, none of this evidence ever showed up, and she later said in testimony that they only ever arrested me to stop me from potentially doing something. The official justification for my arrest was a phone call, saying I was Russian. A call that never even mentioned a crime.
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I posted about the Signal messaging application versus Telegram a while ago, and I received a lot of answers about different applications as alternatives. So I'd like to write a thread giving an overview about my perspective on the security of different applications. 1/53
It's very important to remember that this thread is only about messaging applications for mobile phones, and the evaluations are based on my own perspectives and needs. In some cases they will be subjective, and you should investigate before applying the advice to yourself. 2/53
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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/
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Hi all - so, after some rest and trying to find my equilibrium again, it's time to recount what happened this week. As I've mentioned, it was painful and frustrating, and the pre-trial is still not even concluded. This will be a long thread with lots of craziness. 1/
First, let's remember what the purpose of the pre-trial in Ecuador serves. The parties first present reasons why the process was illegal (so called "nullities"), then the prosecution and parties presents their accusation and supporting evidence. 2/
Then we discuss counter points to the acccusation, moving on to exclusion of prosecution evidence and finally presenting evidence for the defense. At this point the prosecutor or accusor can discuss exclusion of evidence. 3/
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