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”.

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?

Vrijheid van Informatie (FOIA) in de zaak van Julian Assange - Stefania Maurizi (English)

Italiaanse onderzoeksjournalist Stefania Maurizi diende Wet Openbaarheid van Bestuur / Freedom of Information verzoeken (FOIA) in bij Zweden, het Verenigd Koninkrijk en de VS op zoek naar feitelijk bewijs met betrekking tot de onrechtmatige opsluiting en psychologische marteling van Julian Assange en mogelijke onderzoeken naar andere medewerkers van Wikileaks.

In dit Engels gesproken interview met Rico Brouwer legt ze uit hoe door middel van meerdere FOIA-sporen en hoger beroepszaken is ontdekt hoe het Britse openbaar ministerie haar invloed op Zweden heeft gebruikt, dat Scotland Yard belangrijke e-mails blijkt te hebben gewist en waarom overheids instanties er de voorkeur aan geven informatie die openbaar behoort te zijn geheim te houden, voor het vermeende grotere goed van het algemeen belang.

Demasking the Torture of Julian Assange (English)

..Somehow you can manage one WikiLeaks and one Julian Assange, but if you have ten thousand of these organisations and journalists popping up that use the internet so effectively to expose secret information, that obviously would no longer be manageable for these states and it could really change the way that world affairs are being conducted very fundamentally. And that’s what these states are afraid of. Interview with Nils Melzer, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture.

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