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Contents US and Sweden: Informal Talks about Assange Extradition to US since December 2010 Media reports that Wikileaks is planning what they describe as a "smear campaign" against Sweden. Julian Assange on The New York Times: Part 8 December 28, 2011 · 0 Comments Source: NYTX Special Fundraising Offer: Donate to receive a remastered version of this series.
A multipart interview with WikiLeaks Editor Julian Assange focusing on his experience collaborating with the New York Times. Produced for NYT eXaminer (NYTX). In part eight of our interview Julian talks about how the New York Times and the Guardian sought clearance from the U.S. Video length: 5 min. 55 sec. About this series: NYTX Editor Chris Spannos interviewed Julian Assange on September 26, 2011. Within the entirety of our interview Julian talks about partnering with the Times to release the Afghan and Iraq War Logs, the Times treatment of Cablegate, Bradley Manning, the Pentagon Papers, WikiLeaks, and much more. NYTX has been publishing this series through the months of October, November, December, and January 2012.
Assange: He coached U.S. army whistleblower, claim prosecutors. Prosecutors reveal online chats with U.S. army privateAssange allegedly used alias 'Nathanial Frank' By Craig Mackenzie Updated: 13:55 GMT, 24 December 2011 Accused: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could face spy charges in the U.S. after a court revealed his apparent 'role' in the theft of secret military documents, it emerged today.
Lawyers have produced logs of online chats they claim show him coaching U.S. Private Bradley Manning how to break passwords to gain access to military computer networks. The prosecutors made the allegations in an hour-long presentation at Manning's pre-trial hearing for allegedly uploading 700,000 stolen documents to WikiLeaks. They disclosed three new excerpts taken from the Guantanamo-held suspect's personal Macintosh laptop. In one, he allegedly asks Mr Assange for help in figuring out a password. To which the 40-year-old WikiLeaks boss replied, according to the prosecutors, 'OK . . . great.' Julian Assange could be handed over to US, supporters claim. Signatories including Prof Noam Chomsky, the academic, and film director Ken Loach said that once in Sweden Mr Assange could be handed over to America without the "appropriate legal processes that accompany normal extradition cases.
" The WikiLeaks founder was this month given permission by the Supreme Court to appeal against his extradition to Sweden where he could face rape and sexual assault allegations. But his supporters claim that sending him to Sweden would place him under "temporary surrender", putting him at threat of a fast-track extradition to the US, where prosecutors are considering charging him over the release of confidential documents. In the letter published in the Daily Telegraph 74 prominent supporters write: "The chances of Mr Assange receiving a fair trial in the United States appear remote. "A number of prominent political figures have called for him to be assassinated, and Joe Biden, the Vice-President, has called him a 'high-tech terrorist'.
WikiLeaks Founder Loses Extradition Appeal. Björn Hurtig. Björn Hurtig, född 1965, är en svensk försvarsadvokat.
Björn Hurtig blev ledamot av Sveriges advokatsamfund 2002. Han har verkat som ombud och försvarsadvokat i flera uppmärksammade rättsfall, bland annat utredningen,[1] och rättegången,[2] mot en dråpmisstänkt läkare vid Astrid Lindgrens barnsjukhus, samt sexbrottsanklagelserna i Sverige mot Wikileaks Julian Assange.[3] Han har även biträtt flera personer vid resningsansökningar, bland andra Billy Butt. Han samarbetar bland annat med advokaten Johan Eriksson och var även med i tv-serien Advokaterna i TV4 2009.[4] Public prosecution service. The Ministry of Justice is responsible for the prosecution service and for ensuring that it has the resources to meet the demands placed on its activities by the Government.
The Ministry's task is primarily to formulate targets and guidelines for the work of the prosecution service, take part in the budget process and monitor and analyse its operations. The Prosecution Authority The Swedish Prosecution Authority has two organisational levels - a central management level and a local, operational level. The central level is responsible for the management, planning and coordination of activities as well as for strategy and policy matters. Functions like supervision; legal control and reviews; the processing of cases concerning misuse of office; and complaints against prosecutors are also placed at central level. The central management structure also includes four national development centres - in Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö and Umeå. Marianne Ny. Marianne NY Marianne Ny joined the Swedish Prosecution Authority as a prosecutor in 1985.
Fair Trial for Julian Assange? - Sweden vs. Assange. Contents Criticism of Swedish justice system Fair trial as a ground for challenging the EAW - February Hearing In the February Hearing, Julian Assange’s lawyers argued that the UK should not extradite him because he would not face a fair trial in Sweden.
If extradited, Assange will be: Held in prison in solitary confinement when he is returned, despite not having been charged (likely to spend up to a year in custody). Experts say that he will remain in pre-trial detention indefinitely. If there is a charge and a trial, it will be held in secret. He will not be judged by an ’independent and impartial tribunal’, a fundamental requirement under the European Convention of Human Rights (article 6.1).