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Nov 19, 2019 6 tweets 4 min read
Swedish Prosecution Authority to hold press conference at 14:00 CET on the status of the Swedish 9-year-old "preliminary investigation"

Assange has never been charged in Sweden.

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#1 @NilsMelzer letter to Swedish Government

@NilsMelzer #2 UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention findings in the case of Julian Assange (Sweden and the United Kingdom) 54/2015

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Nov 24, 2018 6 tweets 3 min read
Interesting: If these documents (scribd.com/user/433220695…) are authentic:
* UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office has funded 'Integrity Project' influence campaign
* Integrity project "circulated privately" material to "key influencers" at El Pais & academic institutions in Spain * According to the documents, 'Integrity Project' "Spain Cluster" coordinators are Mira Milosevich-Juaristi of the Elcano think tank, and Borja Lasheras, of ECFR, among others.
* They appeared together with David Alandete of El Pais before UK parliament:
Nov 20, 2018 13 tweets 8 min read
Some journalists keenly cite FBI informer Marcy Wheeler's wild & eager speculations on EDVA's #Assange indictment. But indications so far in fact point to the indictment relating to @xychelsea's case & @WikiLeaks revelations of US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Cablegate, GITMO. First of all, the document indicates that the indictment is in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA). This is where the WikiLeaks Grand Jury (Ref:10GJ3793) has been empanelled since 2010 in order to indict Assange over the publications that Chelsea Manning was convicted over.
Aug 3, 2018 14 tweets 11 min read
@lawfareblog @hilary_hurd Hi there! It's great you are taking interest in this complex case -- there is a lot of inaccurate information out there and some have informed some parts of your piece. For example, The asylum was granted from US extradition & cooperation with Swedish authorities... @lawfareblog @Hilary_Hurd ...led to his finally being questioned at the embassy in November 2016 (the prosecutor had refused until finally compelled by Sweden's Court of Appeal in 2015, which reprimanded her for failing to progress the preliminary investigation). Assange's statement included exculpatory..