Update received from Rafik Saley (general secretary African Committee for Sustainable Development – Sweden), of the letter delivered to the Chairman of the Swedish Bar Association regarding a formal complain on lawyer Ms. Elisabeth Massi Fritz, in the Swedish case VS the founder of WikiLeaks, Mr. Julian Assange
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We have reasons to update the complaint against Elisabeth Massi Fritz as outlined in this supplementary letter.
Since
writing to you about Ms Fritz’s political motivation against Mr Julian
Assange she has made subsequent comments of a political nature:
Ms
Fritz cannot possibly know that Julian Assange would be safe from
extradition to the United States. If that was the case, the prosecution
would guarantee what Mr. Assange’s legal team has been asking for, which
would bring this despicable case to an end. They have refused to do so
and continue to prolong the suffering of all parties involved, excluding
the legal profession and politicians. Not only does Ms. Fritz make
unwarrantable public statements but her whole strategy appears to be a
character assassination campaign against Mr Assange despite him not
having been charged with a crime. This is a most improper conduct from a
lawyer.
Here is the
original Washington Post story to which Expressen alludes and you can
see that the Grand Jury investigation is still ongoing.
Further
confirmation that an investigation into Wikileaks is continuing comes
from Fay Brundage at the attorney’s office for the Eastern District of
Virginia, USA.
In
the Expressen article, Ms Massi Fritz also makes a statement that “My
client will be involved in the case and stick to the story of the
serious violation that she believes that she suffered”. However, it
would appear from evidence already in the public domain since September
2013 -http://wikileaks.org/IMG/html/Affidavit_of_Julian_Assange.html
[see paragraphs 97-99] – that her client’s earliest comments regarding
the matter on 20th and 21st August 2010 flatly contradict Ms. Massi
Fritz’s statement in Espressen:
According
to a phone record of 20th August 2010 (17:06), Ms. S. W. said she was
shocked “when they arrested JA because she only wanted him to take a
test.” According to the younger woman’s phone records, to whom an
allegation of ‘rape’ has been indicated, she wrote at 07:27 on 21st
August 2010 that she “did not want to accuse JA for anything”; and at
22:25 that “it was the police who made up the charges”.
It
is not credible that Ms. Massi Fritz would be unaware of her own
client’s earlier statements, and this makes her public statement on the
case made to Expressen last week an infringement of the Bar
Association’s rules:
“§2. Lawyers’ conduct must be factual and correct, and such that confidence in the legal profession is maintained.”
Yours sincerely
Okoth Osewe – journalist and author – Kenya and Sweden
Rafik Saley – general secretary African Committee for Sustainable Development – Sweden
John Goss – writer and researcher – United Kingdom
Dr. Selim Y Gool – retired, ex-teacher / academic, Norway
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