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26 Oct, 7 tweets, 4 min read
THREAD. See our investigations into how the UK legal process has been conflicted from the start of the US attempt to prosecute Julian #Assange

The case has implications for media freedom and the US right to prosecute anyone in the world, but also for the independence of UK law
The husband of Lady Arbuthnot, Westminster chief magistrate who initially oversaw #Assange’s extradition case to the US, was shown to have financial links to the British military establishment, including institutions exposed by WikiLeaks.

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Lady Arbuthnot had even received financial benefits from two partner organisations of the Foreign Office before her appointment - yet she failed to formally declare conflicts of interests in presiding over the #Assange case.

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Incredibly, the son of Lady Arbuthnot was shown to be linked to an anti-data leak company created by the UK intelligence establishment and staffed by officials recruited from US intelligence agencies behind that country’s prosecution of Julian #Assange.

declassifieduk.org/the-son-of-jul…
As Lady Arbuthnot ruled against #Assange in 2018, refusing to release him from what the UN termed 'arbitrary detention', her husband, a former defence minister, was closely associated with a lobby group publicly criticising the WikiLeaks founder.

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When Vanessa Baraitser took over the #Assange case, we discovered she had a 96% extradition record. The Ministry of Justice blocked the release of basic information about her in what appears to be an irregular application of the FOI Act

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Then David Davis told us that judge Baraitser "got the law wrong" by claiming in her ruling in January this year that the UK/US extradition the treaty included political crimes, which it doesn't, in his analysis.

declassifieduk.org/uks-former-bre…

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