Browsing Category: Sweden

How Sweden bribed its way to a seat in the UN Security Council using millions taken from the public budget for aid to poor countries

By Prof Marcello Ferrada de Noli, PhD. Chair, Swedish Doctors for Human Rights.  “It was a cover operation for what this is really about, namely to buy votes, says the source” (In DN) In a few days, Sweden will be occupying a seat on the UN Security Council, including the chairmanship. This was the result […]

The new geopolitics of Sweden: Feminism, arms exports to dictatorships, & NATO. Impact in the Assange case

  By Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli, chair, Swedish Professors & Doctors for Human Rights – SWEDHR. Introduction For exactly six years ago, Sweden ordered the detention of the WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange. According to the Snowden documents, the US government had  asked the countries participating in the occupation of Afghanistan under US-military command, to […]

Assange Defense Underscores Shameful Swedish, U.S. Tactics

By Andrew Kreig, J.D., M.S.L., attorney and journalist. Member of The Indicter editorial board. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange last week refuted the dubious prosecution Sweden began against him in August 2010. Assange’s written response on Dec. 7, with his first detailed defense, underscores the disgraceful procedures used by Sweden, the United States, and the United Kingdom, […]

Tell Sweden to respect decision by the United Nations body on Arbitrary Detention and free Julian Assange!

By Prof Marcello Ferrada de Noli, chair, Swedish Professors and Doctors for Human Rights – SWEDHR. Updated image: Senator Sasse wishes to stop WikiLeaks exposures on CIA. Sweden refuses to clearly state whether or not they will extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the U.S. There is no charge whatsoever against Julian Assange in Sweden; […]