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 **Because smears against Assange are many and correct information often lacks.** **Because smears against Assange are many and correct information often lacks.**
  
-Voir aussi (Fr) [[Éléments pour combattre la campagne de désinformation]]+Voir aussi (Fr) [[fr:tools_to_fight_a_disinformation_campaign]]\\ 
 +See also [[Swedish Allegations]]
  
 ==== Debunking all the Assange smears ==== ==== Debunking all the Assange smears ====
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 After a visit in Sweden in 2010 Julian Assange was accused of sexual misconduct by two women there. Assange complied with the preliminary investigation and the case was soon closed a first time because the prosecutor saw no crime. It was opened again later, by a different prosecutor... After a visit in Sweden in 2010 Julian Assange was accused of sexual misconduct by two women there. Assange complied with the preliminary investigation and the case was soon closed a first time because the prosecutor saw no crime. It was opened again later, by a different prosecutor...
 Then started a long series of legal battles supposedly intended to shed light and bring justice to all parties in this case when in fact only the injustice grew thicker, with Assange being vilified as a rapist in the press even though he had never been charged with any crime. Assange always claimed his innocence, all the while continuing to collaborate with the investigation even when he was in political asylum inside the Ecuadorian embassy and limited in movements for fear of an extradition to the US.  Then started a long series of legal battles supposedly intended to shed light and bring justice to all parties in this case when in fact only the injustice grew thicker, with Assange being vilified as a rapist in the press even though he had never been charged with any crime. Assange always claimed his innocence, all the while continuing to collaborate with the investigation even when he was in political asylum inside the Ecuadorian embassy and limited in movements for fear of an extradition to the US. 
-The questionable way the investigation was conducted, the years of legal procrastination and irregularities that followed were neither fair to the women nor to Assange. They were in fact detrimental, instrumental only to the political persecution of the WikiLeaks founder. UN rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer even concluded this investigation “was the primary factor that triggered, enabled and encouraged the subsequent campaign of sustained and concerted public mobbing and judicial persecution against Mr. Assange in various countries, the cumulative effects of which can only described as psychological torture.”+The questionable way the investigation was conducted, the years of legal procrastination and irregularities that followed were neither fair to the women nor to Assange. They were in fact detrimental, instrumental only to the political persecution of the WikiLeaks founder. UN rapporteur on torture [[https://challengepower.info/nils_melzer|Nils Melzer]] even concluded this investigation “was the primary factor that triggered, enabled and encouraged the subsequent campaign of sustained and concerted public mobbing and judicial persecution against Mr. Assange in various countries, the cumulative effects of which can only described as psychological torture.”
 The investigation is now closed for the third time, for lack of evidence.  The investigation is now closed for the third time, for lack of evidence. 
  
 === Findings of Nils Melzer, UN rapporteur on torture === === Findings of Nils Melzer, UN rapporteur on torture ===
  
-== "A murderous system is being created before our very eyes" ==+** "A murderous system is being created before our very eyes" **
  
 An interview with Nils Melzer UN rapporteur on Torture. By Daniel Ryser, Yves Bachmann, on Republik.ch 31/01/2020 An interview with Nils Melzer UN rapporteur on Torture. By Daniel Ryser, Yves Bachmann, on Republik.ch 31/01/2020
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 https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange
  
-== Demasking the Torture of Assange ==+** Demasking the Torture of Assange **
  
 By Nils Melzer, UN rapporteur on torture, 26 June 2019 By Nils Melzer, UN rapporteur on torture, 26 June 2019
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 https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian-assange-b252ffdcb768 https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian-assange-b252ffdcb768
  
-== Dismantling the Swedish "rape" narrative against Julian Assange ==+** Open letter in response to UN special rapporteur's op-ed on Julian Assange**
  
-By Nils Melzer, UN rapporteur on torture, 2 Jul 2019+1 july 2019 - Women human rights lawyers co-signed an open letter accusing Nils Melzer of misunderstanding the legalities of sexual assault, insensitivity to victims of sexual assault, and doing a disservice to his mandate... 
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 +** Dismantling the Swedish "rape" narrative against Julian Assange ** 
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 +By Nils Melzer, UN rapporteur on torture, 2 Jul 2019 - Nils Melzer responds to his critics
  
 https://medium.com/@njmelzer/response-to-open-letter-of-1-july-2019-7222083dafc8 https://medium.com/@njmelzer/response-to-open-letter-of-1-july-2019-7222083dafc8
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 +** UN rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer replies to feminist legal critics on Assange**
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 +By Laura Tiernanan, 5 july 2019
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 +https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/05/melz-j05.html
  
 === Analyses ===  === Analyses === 
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 ==== The "not a journalist" claim ==== ==== The "not a journalist" claim ====
  
-== Is Assange a journalist ? ==+=== Is Assange a journalist ? ===
  
 by Caitlin Jonhstone, April 2019 by Caitlin Jonhstone, April 2019
  
 https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/07/is-assange-a-journalist/  https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/07/is-assange-a-journalist/ 
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 +=== Julian Assange is a journalist, not an "hacktivist" ===
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 +Barry J. Pollack, The Washington Post, July 2021
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 ==== Paranoia ? NO ==== ==== Paranoia ? NO ====
  
 Here is the text of the indictment, the US charging Assange with 17 counts of Espionage.  Here is the text of the indictment, the US charging Assange with 17 counts of Espionage. 
-{{:assange-indictment.pdf}}+{{docs:assange-indictment.pdf}}
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