By Professor Marcello Ferrada de Noli* Contents: i) Introduction. Aims ii) Background A: The “duck pond”. Some aspects on the situation of Swedish journalists, iii) Background B: Sweden is not neutral. Media reports are mainly uniform, iv) The trial by media against Assange: a) Erroneous and information and deployment of disinformation, b) systematic omission of relevant information, c) character […]
Interview with Swedish Doctors for Human Rights Chairman on Assange Case & Amnesty Sweden
By Erik Sandberg and SWEDHR Staff Journalist Eric Sandberg, KILTR, Scotland, interviewed the Chairman of Swedish Doctors for Human Rights and Editor-in-Chief of The Indicter magazine, Professor Marcello Ferrada de Noli. The subject of the interview being the Swedish case vs Assange, and the debate with Amnesty Sweden that recently SWEDHR and The Indicter held. […]
Edu Montesanti interviews Professor Mads Andenæs on Assange, UN & human rights
Interview with Lawyer Mads Andenæs – Chair of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, by Edu Montesanti [1]. . WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange The Norwegian lawyer, Professor Mads Andenæs, is a legal academic and the UN Special Rapporteur on arbitrary detention was, since 2009 a chair of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary […]
Swedish Doctors for Human Rights rebuts statement by Amnesty Sweden on Assange case
By Professor Marcello Ferrada de Noli, Chairman of Swedish Doctors for Human Rights, Dr Nozomi Hayase in representation of The Indicter Editorial Board, Professor Anders Romelsjö, SWEDHR vice-chairman, and Dr Lena Oske in representation of SWEDHR’s Board of Directors. This material was first published in SWEDHR Research & Reports The Swedish section of Amnesty International […]
Paid agent of Swedish security services implicated in second disinformation campaign against Assange
By Professor Marcello Ferrada de Noli. In the first part of this series [1] The Indicter exposed that a former paid agent of Sweden’s Security Police had intervened with Amnesty Sweden (the Swedish section of Amnesty International), directly dictating its negative stance towards Julian Assange. In this article I analyse whether Swedish government security agents, […]
While U.S. admits “pending future prosecution” of Julian Assange, Sweden refuses to abide by U.N. ruling on his arbitrary detention
By Professor Marcello Ferrada de Noli, chairman of Swedish Doctors for Human Rights. A Swedish version of this article is published in Västerbotten Kuriren. The United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) has ruled that the detention of Mr Julian Assange is illegitimate and in breach of Articles 9 and 10 of the […]
Former paid agent of Swedish Security Police dictated Amnesty Sweden’s stance against Assange
By Professor Marcello Ferrada de Noli PhD. Chairman of Swedish Doctors for Human Rights (SWEDHR) This report was originally published in SWEDHR Research & Reports. Vol 2., N° 45, 6 March 2016 See the update (down below) with the comment by Amnesty International Sweden. . In December 2010 a close collaboration between Sweden and the […]
Olof Palme and Julian Assange subjected in Sweden to same hate campaign by the same political forces and with the same purpose: to defend U.S. geopolitical interests
By Professor Marcello Ferrada de Noli. Today, 28 of February 2016, the world is mourning the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Olof Palme, the honourable PM of Sweden. The Swedish media and a variety of early authorities and representatives of Sweden’s power and cultural elites have been during the last weeks unanimous on this: […]
Argument for refusing to issue non-extradition guarantees to Mr Assange is fallacious and hides real commitment to the U.S. – Analysis
The Indicter, Vol 2, Nr 31, 20 February 2016 By Prof Marcello Ferrada de Noli PhD. Chairman of Swedish Doctors for Human Rights and of The Indicter’s Editorial board. Prologue It has been nearly six years since Time Magazine acknowledged – see image above – that the organization founded by Mr Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, “could […]
Case against Assange must be closed down
The Indicter, Vol 2, Nr 30, 19 February 2016. By Maj Wechselmann, Film director and filmmaker, Member of The Indicter’s Editorial Board. On February 15, the special adviser to the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights – Alfred de Zayas –called on Sweden and the UK to immediately discontinue the prosecution against Julian Assange. The […]