Det stemmer ikke at denne saken har vært "ganske godt" dekket i pressen. Den har, når man betenker dens omfang, nærmest ikke blitt tatt på. PEN og Klassekampen er stort sett eneste unntak - det er flott med lederne som begynner å dukke opp nå, men de kommer uomtvistelig i tolvte time.

Se for eksempel hvordan Nils Melzer beskriver sakens utvikling, som jeg har linket til ovenfor. Eller denne samlingen fra ifjor av eksempler på "rettslige anomaliteter", som den prisbelønnede journalisten Jonathan Cook beskriver dem, i prosessen mot ham. Våre store aviser - ikke minst Aftenposten, som vant "Schibsted-prisen for årets beste avsløring" takket være Wikileaks-avsløringene, men som først nå har uttrykt noen prinsipiell støtte - kunne ha fylt en bok med nyhetsoppdateringer og kronikker.

"What is so striking in the Assange coverage is the sheer number of legal anomalies in his case – and these have been accumulating relentlessly from the very start. Almost nothing in his case has gone according to the normal rules of legal procedure. And yet that very revealing fact is never noticed or commented on by the corporate media. You need to have a blind spot the size of Langley, Virginia, not to notice it.

So here is a far from complete list – aided by the research of John Pilger, Craig Murray and Caitlin Johnstone, and the original investigative work of Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi – of some of the most glaring anomalies in Assange’s legal troubles. There are 17 of them below. Each might conceivably have been possible in isolation. But taken together they are overwhelming evidence that this was never about enforcing the law. From the start, Assange faced political persecution."

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2...ver-about-law/

Eller ett eksempel til, på overvåkning av Assange i ambassaden, som inkluderer møter med hans leger og advokater - og som i seg selv i en normal rettssak hadde vært nok til å få dommeren (Vanessa Baraitser) til å avslå begjæringen om utlevering:

"David Morales, a former military official who owns the security firm Undercover Global SL, is under investigation by Spain’s High Court, the Audiencia Nacional, for spying on Assange’s meetings with his lawyers and allegedly handing information to the CIA.

Morales suspected that a baby who was repeatedly brought into the embassy by Stephen Hoo, an actor friend of Assange’s who paid him regular visits, might really be the cyberactivist’s own child, and these visits were recorded.

Morales even issued orders to steal the baby’s diapers to analyze the contents for DNA, although the task was never carried out. "

https://english.elpais.com/internati...n-embassy.html

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