Thread by @jaraparilla

I keep using the word "bizarre" in my #WLhistory book and thinking "surely there must be another word I can use"? But nope. This whole saga has been totally bizarre for over 10 years... 🧵 #FreeASSANGE

https://twitter.com/rebecca_vincent/status/1453078120060362754

Starting with two Swedish women throwing themselves at Assange just as he was releasing major leaks in 2010, then going to the cops, then their "case" being re-opened a day after it was closed (by politically connected lawyers)...

Then Assange's laptops disappearing on his flight from Sweden, never to be seen again. Then he wakes one day to find global front pages calling him a "Double Rapist". Then an Interpol Red Notice when he is only wanted for questioning & already answered questions from Swedish cops

Then someone gives the Guardian total access to the Swedish police files and they publish lurid sex details that should have remained private... Sunday 22 August 2010, the Swedish case is closed because of "new evidence" that remains secret, with no apology, then...

Friday 27 August 2010, politician Claes Borgström re-opens the investigation in the Swedish city of Gothenberg (400 km from Stockholm). On the following day, the two women allegedly confirm by text that their new lawyer has negotiated a contract with Sweden’s biggest tabloid...

Then UK Crown Prosecutors tell Sweden not to come question Assange in London, and not to close their case - and then deleted all their emails to avoid more FOIA revelations. And after insisting for years they cannot go question JA in UK Sweden end up doing just that...

And then we have all the abuses of due process in the UK courts, and everybody ignoring a UN ruling that Assange must be immediately released & compensated, and govts in USA, UK, AUS and Sweden all refusing FOIA requests while insisting this is just a normal case...

And then we have all the Western media calling Assange a narcissist and a paranoid, dirty whatever who hates cats, and Spielberg making a movie full of lies, and the deadly silence of journos who know better but don't dare speak up. HOW DOES THAT WORK???

And then the CIA PLOTS TO ASSASSINATE ASSANGE ON THE STREETS OF LONDON and the media just ignore it!?!? And the DoJ's star witness is a pedo & fraud who retracts his evidence AND THE MEDIA JUST IGNORE THAT TOO!?!?! All totally BIZARRE!!!

#FreeASSANGE

NB I said above Assange's case in Sweden was "re-opened a day after it was closed" but actually it was closed a day after it was re-opened. Just as bizarre!