By Meryl Nass
After nine years of legal battles, a British judge has finally challenged the wall of secrecy erected by British and Swedish authorities around the legal abuse of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
CPS persecuted Assange for
14 years
Judge Foss, sitting at the London First-Tier Tribunal, has ruled that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) must explain how it came to destroy key files that would have shed light on why it pursued Assange for 14 years. The CPS appears to have done so in breach of its own procedures.
Assange was finally released from Belmarsh high-security prison last year in a plea deal after Washington had spent years seeking his extradition for publishing documents revealing US and UK war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The CPS files relate to lengthy correspondence between the UK and Sweden over a preliminary investigation into rape allegations in Sweden that predate the US extradition case.
A few CPS emails from that time were not destroyed and have been released under Freedom of Information rules. They show that it was the UK authorities pushing reluctant Swedish prosecutors to pursue the case against Assange. Eventually, Swedish prosecutors dropped the case after running it into the ground.
In other words, the few documents that have come to light show that it was the CPS – led at that time by Keir Starmer, later knighted and now Britain’s prime minister – that waged what appears to have been a campaign of political persecution against Assange, rather than one based on proper legal considerations.
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It is not just Britain concealing documents relating to Assange. The US, Swedish and Australian authorities have also put up what Stefania Maurizi, an Italian journalist who has been doggedly pursuing the FoI requests, has called “a wall of darkness”.
There are good grounds for believing that all four governments have coordinated their moves to cover up what would amount to legal abuses in the Assange case.
Starmer headed the CPS when many highly suspect decisions regarding Assange were made. If the documents truly have been destroyed, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to ever know how directly he was involved in those decisions.
Extraordinarily, and conveniently for both the UK and Sweden, it emerged during legal hearings in early 2023 that prosecutors in Stockholm claim to have destroyed the very same correspondence deleted by the CPS.
The new ruling by Judge Foss will require the CPS to explain how and why it destroyed the documents, and provide them unless it can demonstrate that there is no way they can ever be retrieved. Failure to do so by February 21 will be treated as contempt of court.
The UK and the US have similarly sought to stonewall separate FoI requests from Maurizi concerning their lengthy correspondence while Washington sought to extradite Assange on “espionage” charges for revealing their war crimes.
The British judiciary approved locking Assange up for years while the extradition case dragged on, despite United Nations legal experts ruling that Assange was being “arbitrarily detained” and the UN’s expert on torture, Nils Melzer, finding that Assange was being subjected to prolonged psychological torture that posed a threat to his life. – The Daily News
“Risky turf in the Land of Oz”
lol Yeah, like jumping on the back of a porkupine and going for a ride. Luna park style.
daviddd2 said – “… Don’t exaggerate…”
Hey, Dorothy dropped a house on the Wicked Witch of the East, but only managed to whack the Wicked Witch of the West with a bit of old-fashioned Gang-Stalking and a bucket of water.
And Toto was no help at all. Risky turf in the Land of Oz.
“In line for a medal, order of garter or what ?”
Absolutely, garters go with fishnets and corsets..
Fed Up said: “Fair Dinkum Cairns News, you win ‘hands down’ for the biggest ignorant pedophile protecting fucktards in your comment section by a country mile!”
Don’t exaggerate, there’s only one of you. 🙂
Commenter Sam
“Starmer is a piece of utter filth, a nightmare for all the severely beleaguered English people he has constantly bullied & brutally threatened, a disgrace to his name & country& a seriously demented criminal, a particularly dark example of evility . This monster deserves a life of hard labour in jail for ever for his destruction of the UK & the sovereign rights of its people.”
In line for a medal, order of garter or what ?
Editor, cairnsnews said – “… so who would you propose be president?”
Dude, president of what?
Don’t be holding your breath, but the USA will soon enough fracture and disintegrate, and Trump will be doing well to still be around at all when the Fat Lady sings. The best we can hope is that maybe West Virginia will still be West Virginia.
By all means, get to counting them chickens, but Empires rise and Empires fall. Just pray that Australia is still in one piece when the dust finally settles.
aapkoning
said..
But remember Trump is not on your side! Trump is on the “Chabad Lubavitch sect side.”
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Yet another pedophile protector that stays silent on Biden and his son Hunter, fiddley diddley and Epstein!
aapkoning, LISTEN carefully to the below link and have a good hard think (if you have a brain) on how Ally Carter manages to keep her head up and journey thru life while you ignorant fucktards still attack Trump who is doing the best he can under the instruction of the Military Alliance that are cleaning up this filth under executive orders
Fair Dinkum Cairns News, you win ‘hands down’ for the biggest ignorant pedophile protecting fucktards in your comment section by a country mile!
https://x.com/mommapancakess/status/1879632135923159288
Credit: J.B Hasenpheffer on X
Mmmmm…so who would you propose be president? Obama again? Or what about Bill Clinton? Maybe Hilary would have been the best candidate after all. Editor
acv19ff39b09e86, Your quote: TRUMP WILL HOPEFULLY HELP TO STOP THE WHO,WEF,UN,THE PARIS AGREEMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE, WHICH IS ANOTHER WAY OF CONTROL WE DON’T NEED.
But remember Trump is not on your side! Trump is on the “Chabad Lubavitch sect side.”
Trump is a member of the Chabad Lubavitch sect, just like his skank daughter and slimy son in law. If his lips are moving he is lying. Lord have mercy.
h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIAQkgTJyKA
Bek said – “… It’s balance, is it not?”
Bek’s not just whistling Dixie.
Up is down, black is white, bad is good and wrong is right.
Welcome to Satan’s world, folks, the world of the WEF and genocidal baby-eating Globalists.
But at the end of the day, and that day is coming, Lamp Posts are still Lamp Posts. And as God is my witness, that Fat Lady WILL SING, even if we have to kick her in the arse to get her started.
daviddd2 said – “… Starmer or Johnson? That’s a tough one. Both are champions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…”
And both escaped from the Muppet Zoo.
Contrast with the Teletubbies and Addams Family characters occupying the Australian parliaments in every state and territory.
And none of them the slightest bit entertaining, all dopplegangers from an evil parallel dimension replete with baby-eating Satanists intent on our destruction.
We even have overtones of The Omen with AnAL carrying creepy Bill’s love-child. Any sane mind would recoil at the thought of what that union might produce.
In Herr Starmer’s eyes, I’d be ‘far right’.
In my eyes, he is ‘far wrong’.
It’s balance, is it not?
Starmer or Johnson? That’s a tough one. Both are champions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Primarily their own, screw the rest.
No prizes for guessing which cult they belong to and how much value they place on the Average Nigel.
MOST OF THE WESTERN WORLD GOVTS HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER BY THE GLOBALISTS AND THIER STANSE IS TO WREAK HAVOC ON THE CITIZENS OF THESE COUNTRIES, BUT THERE IS HOPE AS WE ARE FIGHTING BACK.
CANADA HAS REJECTED TRUDEAU, BIDEN IS SOON GONE AND TRUMP WILL HOPEFULLY HELP TO STOP THE WHO,WEF,UN,THE PARIS AGREEMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE, WHICH IS ANOTHER WAY OF CONTROL WE DON’T NEED.
DAVE I AGREE WITH YOUR SOLUTION BUT WE ALSO NEED TO INCLUDE NZ.
I have no words to describe how I feel about this government that is not our government – not for the last 50 years anyway. They dance to the tune of others to the utter detriment and destruction of this country and its people.
Yes, it is treasonous, shameful and disgusting.
Onya Julian!…Fair dinkum LEGEND for exposing the filth 👍👍
If one has a read of Ian Cobain’s The History Thieves one will discover that the British have regularly destroyed serious documentation of many of their dastardly deeds. Obscurity and obfuscation is the name of the game with the Brits-all to hide their nefarious wrongdoings-and if you really want to know, my best source has nailed the Brits as being “at the bottom of the dogpile” in all the wrongdoings in the world, along with the Vatican, the BAR Association (the lawyers) and the Royal Family:
http://annavonreitz.com/britdogpile.pdf
And she ain’t wrong, Folks.
The Brits (not the ordinary people) are a bunch of dirt-bags, from go to woe, woe being the operative word.
Starmer is a piece of utter filth, a nightmare for all the severely beleaguered English people he has constantly bullied & brutally threatened, a disgrace to his name & country& a seriously demented criminal, a particularly dark example of evility . This monster deserves a life of hard labour in jail for ever for his destruction of the UK & the sovereign rights of its people.
Hang the Bastards for Treason in Britain and Australia
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