Whistle-blower on the Case of Julian Assange - United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer
“By and large the system functions or so I thought. But when I started scratching the surface of this case, That to me was profoundly shocking: to see how much dirt was coming to the surface”.
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Nils Melzer in 2016 was appointed as the Special Rapporteur on Torture for the United nations. In 2019 he assessed that Julian Assange showed all signs of being a victim of psychological torture. Shortly after Melzer started his investigation, Assange was removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and transferred to Belmarsh prison where he remains to this day, fighting extradition to the United States.
Bailey Lamon and Rico Brouwer talk to Melzer in this 90 minute interview for a chapter in their own upcoming book; ‘the Whistleblowers Book of Courage’. How can it be that the United Nations rapporteur on torture, appointed by the countries of the world to report on torture is now considered a whistle-blower for just doing his job?
Der Fall Julian Assange on Amazon (German) https://www.amazon.nl/Fall-Julian-Assange-spektakul%C3%A4re-UNO-Sonderberichterstatters/dp/3492070760
Rico Brouwer / Nils Melzer interview July 2019 on the case of Assange https://potkaars.nl/blog/2019/7/11/demasking-the-torture-of-julian-assange-english
Potkaars report on the Assange extradition trial February 2020 https://potkaars.nl/blog/2020/2/21/london-report-23-26-febryary-2020
Djamila le Pair who read the German written book ‘the case of Assange’ for us, was guest to the Potkaars podcast on december 24th 2020 (Dutch spoken). https://potkaars.nl/blog/2020/12/24/djamila-le-pair-in-actie-voor-julian-assange it was later that day, the day before Christmas, that the Potkaars YouTube channel was deleted by YouTube altogether, for presumed violation of their rules.
The current editor of WikiLeaks, Kristinn Hrafnsson was guest to the Potkaars podcast november 2020, to discuss the extradition trial of Assange that had just taken place and the US elections https://potkaars.nl/blog/2020/11/03/election2020
The Whistleblowers book of courage project: https://potkaars.nl/bookcourage
Nils Melzer about ‘Anything to Say’ (november 2019) https://medium.com/@njmelzer/anything-to-say-this-is-what-i-have-to-say-1e5df397e221
Nils Melzer about ‘switching off the fire alarm’ (june 2021) https://medium.com/@njmelzer/switching-off-the-fire-alarm-a3f10c03bdaa
Nils Melzer November 27 2019 in Berlin, Germany with the ‘Anything to Say’ statue
Djamila le Pair (on the right) at a demonstration in the Netherlands, June 12th 2021