By Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli, Chairman, Swedish Doctors for Human Rights. This article is the continuation of “Sweden’s unethical – and unlawful – arms deals with ISIS-backing Saudis“. Sweden now deepens arms deals with Arab dictatorships, this time with the United Arab Emirates – which anew constitutes a questionable state-behaviour from the perspective of […]
Browsing Year: 2016
Controversy over WikiLeaks Podesta Emails Opens a Debate for Future Journalism
By Dr. Nozomi Hayase PhD, member of The Indicter Editorial Board. WikiLeaks image in the release series The Podesta Emails In its 10th years of existence, WikiLeaks has been at the center of controversy. Ever since its global debut with the 2010 Apache helicopter gun-sight video depicting the killing of civilians in Baghdad, the whistleblowing […]
Iraq war: Swedish participation in US bombing of Baghdad civilian shelters
By Prof Marcello Ferrada de Noli Chair, Swedish Doctors for Human Rights – SWEDHR. The active participation of “neutral” Sweden in the occupation war of Iraq on behalf of the occupation forces is not known in its full extent by the international public at large. What is commonly known is that Bofors cannons sold […]
Sweden’s unethical – and unlawful – arms deals with ISIS-backing Saudis
By Prof Marcello Ferrada de Noli, Chair, Swedish Doctors for Human Rights – SWEDHR. Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Löfven, and with him the Swedish banker Marcus Wallenberg (CEO of Investor, the main holding company of the Wallenbergs), are travelling to Saudi Arabia for an official visit. The meetings with the Saudis, as announced […]
WikiLeaks, 10 Years of Pushing the Boundaries of Free Speech
By Dr Nozomi Hayase, Member of The Indicter editorial board. “To me, freedom of speech is something that represents the very dignity of what a human being is… that’s what marks us off from the stones and stars.” These are words spoken by Mario Savio, the spokesperson for the Free Speech Movement in the 60’s. […]
Standing with the Conscience of Truthtellers.
Assange, Manning and Snowden. By Nozomi Hayase, Ph.D. Member of The Indicter Editorial Board. Last week, Oliver Stone’s biopic “Snowden” hit the theaters. The film illuminates the life of Edward Snowden between 2004 and 2013, aiming to humanize one of the most wanted men in the world. Just before its release, a public campaign was […]
The powers behind the hunt of WikiLeaks
By Prof Marcello Ferrada de Noli Summary. Mr Assange has never been charged of any crime, neither in Sweden nor in any other country. In the vertiginous development of the ‘affair Assange’, important episodes in the genesis of the case had fallen nearly forgotten. This article presents a brief review on the real geopolitical […]
Justice for Assange publishes revealing press conference on Marianne Ny’s case against Julian Assange. Full transcript
Editor’ note: In view of the recent ruling of the Stockholm court with regards to the illegitimate case against Mr Julian Assange, we have decided to publish in full the transcript of the press conference given by Marianne Ny on the 7 of September, material which we have found in the site Justice for Assange. The […]
Statement by Swedish Doctors for Human Rights on Swedish court decision ref. illegitimate case against Mr Julian Assange.
By Prof Dr Marcello Ferrada de Noli, chairman; Prof Dr Anders Romelsjö, vice chairman; Dr. Lena Oske, Board of Directors; and Doctors Martin Gelin and Leif Elinder. The case pursued by the Swedish prosecution authority against the founder of WikiLeaks has been declared illegitimate by the United Nations expert-panel on arbitrary detention. The ruling established […]
‘Affair Assange’ – Malicious handling of a political case
By Prof Marcello Ferrada de Noli, chairman of Swedish Doctors for Human Rights. Summary. In a few days the Swedish court shall rule on Assange’s freedom; or it will rule in favour of prosecutor Ny. This article deals with prosecutor Marianne Ny’s assaying anew to influence the court, in exactly the same fashion that she […]