February 2, 2012 was the second and last day of the final extradition hearing of Julian Assange v the Swedish Prosecution Authority.
Clare Montgomery QC spoke for Sweden. One of Montgomery's high profile cases included her defense of Chilean …
February 2, 2012 was the second and last day of the final extradition hearing of Julian Assange v the Swedish Prosecution Authority.
Clare Montgomery QC spoke for Sweden. One of Montgomery's high profile cases included her defense of Chilean dictator and war criminal Augusto Pinochet, when he faced extradition from the UK to Spain, in October of 1998.
Dinah Rose QC spoke for Assange, who defended "extraordinary rendition" victim Binyam Mohamed in his Court of Appeal hearing, during which it was decided he had been subjected to "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by the United States authorities". He settled with the government for £1 million in compensation.
According to an article by Paul Owen published on The Guardian's website, "...[Rose] put her case to the seven justices that because in Sweden a prosecutor requests an arrest warrant rather than a judge, that made the warrant Sweden issued against Assange invalid. She made a dense legal argument based on close textual analysis of the European arrest warrant agreements, the Extradition Act 2003 which incorporates that into British law, and the 1957 European convention on extradition which preceded it."
For more information on the case and to help please visit the following links:
Justice for Assange - https://justice4assange.com/
Free Assange Now - https://freeassangenow.org/
○ Support the WikiLeaks Defense Fund here:
https://defend.wikileaks.org/
For more articles about the case, including the judgement, please visit the following links:
○ "Julian Assange extradition appeal at supreme court - Thursday 2 February", by Paul Owen -
http://www.theguardian.com/media/blog/2012/feb/02/julian-assange-extradition-appeal-at-supreme-court-day-two-live-blog
○ "When it comes to Assange rape case, the Swedes are making it up as they go along", by Melbourne barrister James D. Catlin -
http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/02/when-it-comes-to-assange-r-pe-case-the-swedes-are-making-it-up-as-they-go-along/
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