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Postby conniption » Thu Feb 04, 2016 7:45 pm

Information Clearing House

Freeing Julian Assange: The Last Chapter


By John Pilger

February 04, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - Assange is now closer to justice and vindication, and perhaps freedom, than at any time since he was arrested.

One of the epic miscarriages of justice of our time is unravelling. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention - an international tribunal that adjudicates and decides whether governments comply with their human rights obligations - has ruled that Julian Assange has been detained unlawfully by Britain and Sweden.

After five years of fighting to clear his name - having been smeared relentlessly yet charged with no crime - Assange is closer to justice and vindication, and perhaps freedom, than at any time since he was arrested and held in London under a European Extradition Warrant, itself now discredited by Parliament.

The U.N. Working Group bases its judgements on the European Convention on Human Rights and three other treaties that are binding on all its signatories. Both Britain and Sweden participated in the 16-month long U.N. investigation and submitted evidence and defended their position before the tribunal. It would fly contemptuously in the face of international law if they did not comply with the judgement and allow Assange to leave the refuge granted him by the Ecuadorean government in its London embassy.

Previous celebrated cases ruled upon by the Working Group include: Aung Sang Suu Kyi in Burma, imprisoned opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim in Malaysia, detained Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian in Iran, for which both Britain and Sweden have given support to the tribunal. The difference now is that Assange's persecution and confinement endures in the heart of London.

The Assange case has never been primarily about allegations of sexual misconduct in Sweden - where the Stockholm Chief Prosecutor, Eva Finne, dismissed the case, saying, "I don't believe there is any reason to suspect that he has committed rape." Also, one of the women involved accused the police of fabricating evidence and "railroading" her, protested that she "did not want to accuse JA of anything." And a second prosecutor mysteriously re-opened the case after political intervention, then stalled it.

The Assange case is rooted across the Atlantic in Pentagon-dominated Washington, obsessed with pursuing and prosecuting whistleblowers, especially Assange for having exposed, in WikiLeaks, U.S. capital crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq: the wholesale killing of civilians and a contempt for sovereignty and international law. None of this truth-telling is illegal under the U.S. Constitution. As a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama, a professor of constitutional law, lauded whistleblowers as "part of a healthy democracy [and they] must be protected from reprisal."

Obama, the betrayer, has since prosecuted more whistleblowers than all the US presidents combined. The courageous Chelsea Manning is serving 35 years in prison, having been tortured during her long pre-trial detention.

Telling us this truth alone earns Assange his freedom, whereas justice is his right.

The prospect of a similar fate has hung over Assange like a Damocles sword. According to documents released by Edward Snowden, Assange is on a "Manhunt target list." Vice President Joe Biden has called him a "cyber terrorist." In Alexandria, Virginia, a secret grand jury has attempted to concoct a crime for which Assange can be prosecuted in a court. Even though he is not an American, he is currently being fitted up with an espionage law dredged up from a century ago when it was used to silence conscientious objectors during World War I; the Espionage Act has provisions of both life imprisonment and the death penalty.

Assange's ability to defend himself in this Kafkaesque world has been handicapped by the U.S. declaring his case a state secret. A federal court has blocked the release of all information about what is known as the "national security" investigation of WikiLeaks.

The supporting act in this charade has been played by the second Swedish prosecutor, Marianne Ny. Until recently, Ny had refused to comply with a routine European procedure that required her to travel to London to question Assange and so advance the case that James Catlin, one of Assange's barristers, called "a laughing stock ... it's as if they make it up as they go along."

Indeed, even before Assange had left Sweden for London in 2010, Ny made no attempt to question him. In the years since, she has never properly explained, even to her own judicial authorities, why she has not completed the case she so enthusiastically re-ignited - just as she has never explained why she has refused to give Assange a guarantee that he will not be extradited on to the U.S. under a secret arrangement agreed between Stockholm and Washington. In 2010, the Independent in London revealed that the two governments had discussed Assange's potential extradition.

Then there is tiny, brave Ecuador.

One of the reasons Ecuador granted Julian Assange political asylum was that his own government, in Australia, had offered him none of the help to which he had a legal right and so abandoned him. Australia's collusion with the United States against its own citizen is evident in leaked documents; no more faithful vassals has America than the obeisant politicians of the Antipodes.

Four years ago, in Sydney, I spent several hours with the Liberal Member of the Federal Parliament, Malcolm Turnbull. We discussed the threats to Assange and their wider implications for freedom of speech and justice, and why Australia was obliged to stand by him. Turnbull is now the Prime Minister of Australia and, as I write, is attending an international conference on Syria hosted the Cameron government - about 15 minutes cab ride from the room that Assange has occupied for three and a half years in the small Ecuadorean embassy just along from Harrod's. The Syria connection is relevant if unreported; it was WikiLeaks that revealed that the United States had long planned to overthrow the Assad government in Syria. Today, as he meets and greets, Prime Minister Turnbull has an opportunity to contribute a modicum of purpose and truth to the conference by speaking up for his unjustly imprisoned compatriot, for whom he showed such concern when we met. All he need do is quote the judgement of the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Will he reclaim this shred of Australia's reputation in the decent world?

What is certain is that the decent world owes much to Julian Assange. He told us how indecent power behaves in secret, how it lies and manipulates and engages in great acts of violence, sustaining wars that kill and maim and turn millions into the refugees now in the news. Telling us this truth alone earns Assange his freedom, whereas justice is his right.

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Postby seemslikeadream » Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:16 am

U.N. panel insists Julian Assange should be freed

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks as Ecuador's Foreign Affairs Minister Ricardo Patino listens, during a news conference at the Ecuadorean Embassy, London, Aug. 18, 2014. REUTERS

GENEVA -- A United Nations human rights panel has sided with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his long-running battle with Swedish and British authorities, saying he should be freed immediately and compensated for the years he has lost.


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The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which falls under the offices of the U.N. human rights chief, said Assange has been "arbitrarily detained" by Britain and Sweden since December 2010, when he was first sought for questioning on allegations of sexual misconduct.

The panel's recommendation was immediately rejected by Swedish and British officials who said Assange's legal situation is unchanged. He remains in the Embassy of Ecuador in London, where he sought refuge more than three years ago.

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The panel's finding has no legal force, British and Swedish officials maintain, but it represents a public relations victory for Assange, who argues that the allegations against him are part of a plot to send him to the United States to face more possible charges related to WikiLeaks' release of classified documents.

The panel itself, however, appears to believe its decision does carry the weight of international law -- at least "indirectly."

Christophe Peschoux, a senior official at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Friday at the U.N.'s offices in Geneva that the panel's opinion "is legally binding to the extent that it is based on the international human rights norm, which had been ratified by states and when a state ratifies a convention -- in this case the convention on civil and political rights -- that state has the obligation to implement its provisions. So, indirectly, yes, it is binding."

The panel's decision was not unanimous: Vladimir Tochilovsky, a Ukrainian member, disagreed with the other three voting members because he did not believe the group had a mandate to investigate the case because he did not believe Assange had been detained. The fifth member of the panel recused herself because she is Australian, as is Assange.


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It is not clear if U.S. judicial officials are seeking Assange's arrest on U.S. charges. No charges have been filed against Assange in Sweden, but Swedish prosecutors want to question him over allegations of rape stemming from a working visit he made to the country in 2010 when WikiLeaks was attracting international attention for its secret-spilling.

Assange has consistently denied the allegations but declined to return to Sweden to meet with prosecutors and eventually sought refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he has lived since June 2012.

His lawyers were expected to appear outside the embassy Friday, and Assange himself was to deliver remarks via Skype -- presumably indicating that he did not, yet, intend to risk arrest by exiting the embassy.

The panel criticized Sweden's approach, noting that Assange was never formally charged in Sweden -- only placed under preliminary investigation.

"The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considers that the various forms of deprivation of liberty to which Julian Assange has been subjected constitute a form of arbitrary detention," said panel chairman Seong-Phil Hong in a statement.

Citing the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that has 168 state parties including both Sweden and Britain, the panel said "the adequate remedy would be to ensure the right of free movement of Mr. Assange and accord him an enforceable right to compensation."

British officials argue that Assange is free to leave the Ecuadorean Embassy at any time -- although he would face arrest from British police because of a European Arrest Warrant issued at Sweden's behest. He is also sought by Britain for jumping bail.

The panel's decision, which was given privately to the governments before it was released to the public, seems to have stunned officials in Sweden and Britain who maintain proper procedures have been followed at all times.

Karin Rosander, spokeswoman for the Swedish Prosecution Authority, said that under Swedish law the panel's conclusion will have no "formal impact."

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond called the panel's finding "frankly ridiculous".

The panel criticized a "disproportionate" reaction by Swedish prosecutors in issuing a European arrest warrant rather than seeking to question Assange using bilateral agreements with Britain, and insisted that the Swedish prosecutor refused to consider other ways of interviewing him compatible with his right to asylum -- which it said was not properly respected.

Britain's Foreign Office said in a statement it would formally contest the panel's opinion.

"This changes nothing. We completely reject any claim that Julian Assange is a victim of arbitrary detention," the Foreign Office said in a statement. "Julian Assange has never been arbitrarily detained by the U.K. The opinion of the U.N. Working Group ignores the facts and the well-recognized protections of the British legal system."

It countered that Assange was "voluntarily avoiding lawful arrest by choosing to remain in the Ecuadorean embassy."

The case has also been complicated by uncertainty surrounding Assange's legal status in the United States. The U.S. government has not revealed whether he has been indicted -- grand jury proceedings are secret in the U.S. -- but has indicated that sensitive investigations into Assange and WikiLeaks have been made.

The working group said Assange could face "refoulement" to the United States -- being handed over to a country where he could face violence or prison. The U.N. upholds the principle of non-refoulement prohibiting that practice.
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Postby seemslikeadream » Sat Feb 06, 2016 10:30 am

Exclusive New Docs Throw Doubt on Julian Assange Rape Charges in Stockholm

Julian Assange Remains “Deprived of Liberty” After U.K. Rejects U.N. Ruling

Alex Emmons
Feb. 5 2016, 3:47 p.m.
A United Nations panel ruled on Friday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being “arbitrarily detained,” but British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond rejected what he called “a ridiculous finding.”

Although he claimed “sweet” vindication, Assange nevertheless remains confined in the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he has lived since 2012.

Assange has been fighting extradition by British authorities to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning concerning accusations of rape and molestation. He has never been charged with a crime.

The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called on the U.K. and Sweden “to end Mr. Assange’s deprivation of liberty, respect his physical integrity and freedom of movement, and afford him the right to compensation.”

The working group, which was established in 1991, has previously demanded the release of prominent political prisoners. In 2015, it demanded the release of Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, who was released last month by the government of Iran. It also ruled in favor of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was released in 2010, and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, who is still held in Cairo after a military coup.

Assange’s legal trouble began in 2010, several weeks after WikiLeaks released 90,000 U.S. intelligence reports on the Afghanistan War. Swedish prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for Assange, demanding that he be extradited to Stockholm to face questioning on accusations of sexual assault. Assange was arrested in London, but fought his extradition, claiming that he was at risk of being extradited again to the Untied States, where he was facing detention and a potential indictment under draconian espionage laws.

In 2012, after exhausting his appeals, Assange was granted asylum by Ecuador. But the British government refused to allow him to board a plane, resulting in three years of confinement and legal limbo inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

The Swedish government repeatedly declined to send investigators to question Assange in London. In 2014, a Swedish appeals court scolded prosecutors for failing “to examine alternative avenues … to move the preliminary investigation forward.”

Until October 2015, Scotland Yard kept the embassy under 24-hour surveillance, spending nearly £11.1 million of taxpayer money. Surveillance was scaled back after a local radio station obtained the financial records under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Postby seemslikeadream » Thu Aug 11, 2016 10:39 am

Ecuador Says Swedish Prosecutors To Question Assange 'In The Coming Weeks'

August 11, 20167:47 AM ET
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It's been more than four years since WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London following allegations of sex crimes, including rape.

Now, in a potential breakthrough to the long-running standoff, Ecuador says it will set a date for Swedish prosecutors to question Assange inside the embassy, NPR's Frank Langfitt tells our Newscast unit. Here's more from Frank.

"Swedish police want to question Assange over sexual offenses he's accused of committing in Sweden going back to 2010.
"Assange is worried that if he returns to Sweden for questioning, the government there will extradite him to America to be prosecuted for leaking secret U.S. government documents.
"The Swedes say they have to interview Assange before they can decide whether to charge him. Ecuador has refused to turn Assange over due to what it calls 'fears of political persecution.'"
As Frank reports, Assange has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing regarding the Swedish allegations.

Swedish prosecutors had demanded that Assange be extradited for questioning, but last year changed their position and said they would question him in London.

Swedish Prosecution Authority spokeswoman Karin Rosander tells The Associated Press that Swedish authorities received formal word from Ecuador on Tuesday that they were prepared to set a date for questioning "in the coming weeks." No date for the interview has been announced.

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"It means that a questioning can make the case go forward," Rosander tells the AP. "This is decisive to be able to take a decision whether to formally charge him or not."

As the AP reports, "Assange's defense team said in a statement that it welcomed the steps to take the WikiLeaks founder's statement, which it said 'comes after six years of complete inaction on the part of the Swedish prosecutor.'"

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Since he took refuge in the embassy, three of four sex-crimes allegations against Assange have expired, due to statutes of limitation, as we have reported. The fourth allegation, of rape, remains.

"It's hard to imagine that any of the involved parties will have a clear memory of what happened six years ago," Thomas Olsson, one of Assange's lawyers, said on Swedish Radio, according to The New York Times. "Another consequence of the delay is that several of the accusations are now barred due to the statute of limitations. We can't see any other outcome for this investigation than that it be shut down."

In February, a U.N. panel determined that Assange was being arbitrarily detained in the Ecuadorean embassy and should go free – a conclusion dismissed by Sweden and the U.K., as we reported at the time.

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Postby stillrobertpaulsen » Thu Aug 11, 2016 3:36 pm

Not sure if this is the best thread, or the Hillary thread, or maybe we should start a separate Seth Rich thread:

EXCLUSIVE: Outrage at Julian Assange for implicating murdered DNC staffer in email leak and offering $20k reward - as the victim's parents accuse Wikileaks founder of ‘politicizing this horrible tragedy’

Seth Rich, an analyst with the DNC. was shot in the back in Washington, D.C. on July 10
Rich is being linked to the 20,000 leaked emails that brought down close Hillary ally Debbie Wasserman-Schultz - forced out as DNC chairman
Police suspected a robbery, but he had his wallet, phone and watch
'Some are attempting to politicize this horrible tragedy, and in their attempts to do so, are actually causing more harm than good,' a spokesman for Rich's parents told Daily Mail Online
His unsolved murder has reignited old rumors that Hillary and Bill will stop at nothing when they want to silence someone
Wikileaks is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in the murder


By Martin Gould For Dailymail.com and Alana Goodman In Washington, Dc For Dailymail.com

Published: 12:59 EST, 10 August 2016

The mystery surrounding the murder of rising Democrat star Seth Rich took a sudden sinister turn Wednesday with claims that he was responsible for the email dump that brought down close Hillary Clinton ally Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.

Julian Assange, the head of Wikileaks, the organization that released the emails, announced a $20,000 reward for information leading to Rich's July 10 death, hinting that Rich was responsible for leaking the documents.

Assange's offer has also added fuel to the flames of conspiracy theories sweeping the Internet that the Democratic presidential candidate and her husband Bill were somehow involved in Rich's death.

Commenting to Daily Mail Online for the family, Brad Bauman said 'Some are attempting to politicize this horrible tragedy, and in their attempts to do so, are actually causing more harm than good and impeding on the ability for law enforcement to properly do their job.'

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Seth Rich, 27, a rising star in the DNC was shot several times as he walked home in Washington. Anti-Clinton forces link Rich to the dump of emails that brought down close Hillary Clinton ally Debbie Wasserman-Schultz

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After decades in the national spotlight Bill and Hillary have amassed enough enemies who are more than happy to point to the number of Clinton associates who have died before their time

Wasserman-Schultz stepped down from her post as head of the Democratic National Committee on the eve of the party's national convention in Philadelphia. Hillary Clinton has suggested that Russia was responsible for hacking party computers and leaking the documents.

But the new theory suggests Rich, who was murdered in what looked like a botched robbery, was behind the leak

Rich, 27, was gunned down on his way home in the affluent Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington D.C. last month while on the phone to his girlfriend.

He was still alive when he was found but died on his way to the hospital. Police still have no leads and are offering a $25,000 reward for information.

Hillary sought out Rich's parents for a private meeting during a trip to their hometown of Omaha, Nebraska last week. Rich's father Joel told the Omaha World-Herald that the former First Lady knew a lot about his son and was 'very warm and comforting.'

Rich's body was found on the 2100 block of Flagler Place NW, but he still had his watch, cell phone and wallet on him.

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'Some are attempting to politicize this horrible tragedy,' Seth Rich's parents told Daily Mail Online through a spokesperson

'There had been a struggle. His hands were bruised, his knees are bruised, his face is bruised, and yet he had two shots to his back, and yet they never took anything,' his mother Mary told Washington's NBC affiliate.

'They took his life for literally no reason.'

So far, police have uncovered no clues to help solve his July 10 murder.

A police report seen by Daily Mail Online also states the circumstances surrounding Rich's homicide are 'unknown'.

The mystery has sparked a flurry of theories posted online, including claims he leaked DNC emails or that he was on his way to speak to the FBI when he was shot.

Reddit user The_Donald also constructed a timeline that links Rich to the Clintons, as pointed out by Heat Street.

'The death of this DNC staffer is too suspicious to ignore, especially in the face of voter fraud allegations against Hillary's campaign… The Clintons definitely have a long list of unfortunate souls who crossed the wrong politicians', wrote ClashDaily.com, which describes itself as a website for 'God- and country-loving patriots.'

But one of Rich's closest friends, Miles Mawby, told the Daily Mail Online that the idea that Rich was the source who gave the leaked DNC documents to Wikileaks was 'absolutely absurd.'

'Never in a million years,' said Mawby, who had known Rich since 2011 and was with him on the Friday evening before he was killed.

'[People are] fanning flames of wild rumors from the internet from conspiracy theorists. It's absolutely absurd. Seth was one of the most dedicated people I've ever met. His day-to-day work…that got him up in the morning.'

Mawby said Rich was happy with his job at the DNC and supportive of Clinton's presidential campaign.

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Yesterday Wikileaks announced it is offering a reward -$20,000 - for information leading to a conviction in the murder case, adding fuel to the flames of conspiracy theories that the Clintons are somehow involved in Rich's death

On the Friday before Rich was shot, he met Mawby, 27, out for drinks in the D.C. suburb of Ballston, Virginia. Mawby said Rich was in good spirits and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

'We had a long-overdue night catch up, just the two of us,' he said. 'We were having fun, catching up. We planned on getting together at some point in the next week. Everything was absolutely normal

Bauman said: 'The entire Rich family is so heartened by the outpouring of support and love that they have felt over the past few weeks as they continue to come to terms with this terrible tragedy.

'The family is in constant contact with authorities and thank them for their extremely thorough investigation. The family believes this matter is being handled professionally and with the seriousness that it requires.

'The family welcomes any and all information that could lead to the identification of the individuals responsible, and certainly welcomes contributions that could lead to new avenues of investigation.

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Julian Assange announced a $20,000 reward for information leading to Rich's July 10 death


Rich's death - along with four other deaths in recent weeks - have reignited old rumors that Hillary Clinton and her husband will stop at nothing when they want to silence someone who could stand in the way of their political ambition.

On the face of it, such speculation seems ludicrous, but that doesn't stop the talk. And after decades in the national spotlight Bill and Hillary have amassed enough enemies who are more than happy to point to the number of Clinton associates who have died before their time.

'I'm not saying the Clintons kill people. I'm saying a lot of people around the Clintons turn up dead,' Larry Nichols, who worked with the former First Family before turning against them told Daily Mail Online.

After Fox News' Greta Van Susteren tweeted about the death on July 26 of Mark Weiner, a Clinton confidante preparing to go see his old friend Bill speak at the DNC, her Twitter feed was filled with comments suggesting one or both of the Clintons were somehow responsible. Weiner, who had long suffered from leukemia, suddenly felt ill and put himself to bed. Within hours he was dead.

'ANOTHER Clinton 'friend' dies at a young age! Glad they aren't my friends!' tweeted Kathy East.

'Did they find a note, or are they still writing it?' queried Irina Florescu.

'Who doesn't the Clintons bump off? Pure evil,' commented Robin Kay Anderson. 'Did he know too much?' asked Ben Nicola Sr.

Websites with names such as Whatreallyhappened.com, Clintonmemoriallibrary.com and Govtslaves.info obsessively list the deaths going back decades, desperately trying to pin them on Bill or Hillary. Most put the total at around 50. Others list nearly 80. Some go even higher.

They document people who have supposedly killed themselves or been murdered. Many have died in plane crashes. Other deaths have been put down to natural causes.

The lists have circulated on the Internet for years. Now the death Rich, among others, have set the rumors afire again.

'I can't give a guarantee that everyone on my list was killed deliberately but they all have the potential,' Michael Rivero, the webmaster of Whatreallyhappened told Daily Mail Online in an exclusive interview.

'But by the general law of statistics there are just way too many of them.'

Rivero, who also hosts a talk radio show on Republic Broadcasting Network, goes further than most, listing more than 100 names of people with connections to the Clintons who have died. Among those deaths he questions are John F. Kennedy Jr. and a man who, he claims, died of 'overdose of mouthwash' while in the dentist's chair.

'Just the sheer number raises questions,' he said.

The political establishment dismisses such talk as conspiracy theory gone wild. And indeed many of the lists that circulate on the web are poorly sourced and run by people who see evil in anything the Clintons do

Snopes.com, a website that covers urban rumors has attempted to debunk the rumors. It points out that the Clintons' years in power have led them to have thousands of people who can claim they know them and the number of their deaths is not out of the ordinary.

Snopes founder David Mikkelson says talk about the Clintons being involved is 'claptrap.'

'In a frenzied media climate where the Chief Executive couldn't boff a White House intern without the whole world finding out every niggling detail of each encounter and demanding his removal from office, are we seriously to believe the same man had been having double handfuls of detractors and former friends murdered with impunity?' he wrote.

Mikkelson points to people such as 69-year-old Florence Martin whose name appears regularly on the Internet lists to prove his point. Martin, who was murdered in her Texas home in 1994, was not a CIA accountant, as widely claimed, but a night manager at a convenience store, he says.

Twenty years after her death a man was finally convicted and sentenced to life in prison with no mention of the Clintons at his trial.

WHO ELSE IS ON THE CLINTON DEATH LIST?

The names on the various Internet lists varies from one website to another, but these are among those most frequently cited as possible victims of a vast Clinton conspiracy.

Kevin Ives and Don Henry, both 17, crushed by a train, August 23, 1987. Their deaths were ruled accidental, with the medical examiner saying they had fallen asleep on a railroad line after smoking marijuana, but a grand jury found they had been murdered before being placed on the tracks. They had allegedly stumbled on a plot to smuggle drugs and guns from an airport in Mena, Arkansas that Bill Clinton was said to be involved in as state governor.

Victor Raiser, 53, small plane crash, July 30, 1992. The second finance co-chair of Bill Clinton's presidential campaign was killed along with his son during a fishing vacation in Alaska. Campaign press secretary Dee Dee Myers called Raiser a major player in the organization.

Paul Tully, 48, apparent heart attack, September 25, 1992. A chain-smoking, heavy drinking political consultant who weighed in at more than 320 lb. Tully died seven weeks before Clinton's first presidential election win. He had been political director of the DNC during Clinton's rise. Tully was on the left of the Democratic Party and usually worked for those who shared his views, however he agreed to work for Clinton because he was impressed with his oratory and thought he was the only Democrat who could beat President George Bush.

Paula Gober, 36, single car accident, December 7, 1992. She was Clinton's interpreter for the deaf for several years and traveled with him while he was governor of Arkansas. Her vehicle overturned on a bend, throwing her 30 feet. There were no witnesses.

Vince Foster, 48, committed suicide on July 20, 1993. He was an Arkansas lawyer who Bill appointed as deputy White House counsel when he became president in 1993. It didn't take long for Foster, 48, to realize he had made a terrible mistake by accepting the post. He hated the work and fell into a deep depression. Just six months into the job, his body was found in his car in Fort Marcy Park, Virginia, a gun in his hand and a suicide note torn into 27 pieces in the trunk.

Stanley Heard, 47, small plane crash, September 10, 1993. An Arkansas chiropractor who, according to the book, A Profession of One's Own, treated the Clinton family, Heard was asked by Bill Clinton to represent the practice as plans for 'Hillarycare' were being finalized. His attorney Steve Dickson, was flying him home from a healthcare meeting in Washington DC just eight months into the Clinton presidency. On the way to the capital from his home in Kansas, Dickson's small plane developed problems so he landed in St. Louis and rented another plane. That rented plane was the one that crashed in rural Virginia, killing both men.
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Jerry Parks, 47, shot to death, September 23, 1993. Parks was head of security for Bill Clinton's headquarters in Arkansas. As he drove home in West Little Rock, two men in a white Chevrolet pulled alongside his car and sprayed it with semi-automatic gunfire. As Parks's car stopped a man stepped out of the Chevy and shot him twice with a 9mm pistol and sped off. Despite there being several witnesses, no-one was ever arrested. The killing came two months after Parks had watched news of Vince Foster's death and allegedly told his son Gary 'I'm a dead man.' His wife Lois remarried and her second husband, Dr. David Millstein was stabbed to death in 2006.

Edward Willey Jr, 60,

Willey, 60, was having serious money problems and his wife, a volunteer aide in the White House, agreed to ask Bill Clinton for a paid job. Their meeting ended when Clinton allegedly forced himself on her in the Oval Office, kissing her, fondling her breast and pushing her hand on to his genitals.

Four years later Kathleen Willey wrote a book in which she put forward a theory that the Clintons may have had her husband murdered. She said after his death, a friend had told her that Ed had confided that he took briefcases full of cash to the Clintons' base in Little Rock, Arkansas during Bill's first presidential campaign.



Herschel Friday, 70, small plane crash, March 1, 1994. Friday was an Arkansas lawyer who Richard Nixon had once considered for the Supreme Court. Friday was known as a benefactor of Bill Clinton, serving on his campaign finance committee.

Kathy Ferguson, 37, gun suicide, May 11, 1994. She was the ex-wife of Arkansas State Trooper Danny Ferguson, who was named in a sexual harassment suit brought by Paula Jones against Bill Clinton. Ferguson left a note blaming problems with her fiancé, Bill Shelton. A month later Shelton, upset about the suicide verdict, killed himself.

Ron Brown, 54, plane crash, April 3, 1996. Brown was chair of the Democratic National Committee during Bill Clinton's rise to the presidential nomination and was rewarded with the cabinet position. He was under a corruption investigation when his plane slammed into a mountainside in Croatia. Doctors who examined his body found a circular wound on the top of his head which led to suspicions that he had died before the plane crashed, but that theory was later discounted. The crash was attributed to pilot error.

Charles Meissner, 56, same plane crash as Brown. Meissner was assistant secretary for international trade and had been criticized for allegedly giving special security clearance to John Huang, who later pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges for violating campaign finance laws, in a case that enmeshed the Clinton administration.

Barbara Wise, 48, natural causes, November 29, 1996. Wise, who worked alongside Brown, Meissner and Huang in the Commerce Department was found dead at her desk on the day after Thanksgiving 1996. Her death was originally classified as a homicide but police later said Wise, 48, who had a history of severe ill health, had died from natural causes. A local TV station initially quoted an unidentified police source as saying her body was partially nude and her office was locked, but those reports were also later denied.

Mary Mahoney was just 25 when she was gunned down along with two assistants at the Washington D.C. Starbucks in 1997 where she was night manager. Mahoney, a lesbian, was also a White House intern and gay rights activist who reportedly acted as a 'mother-figure' to various women who had allegedly been sexually harassed by Bill Clinton.

John Ashe, 61, a politician and former president of the United Nations General Assembly, was pumping iron at his home in Dobbs Ferry, New York on June 22 when he dropped the weight. He died from 'traumatic asphyxiation. Ashe was about to stand trial in a corruption case for allegedly receiving $500,000 from billionaire real estate developer Ng Lap Seng. Ng was involved in a fundraising scandal and named in a 1998 Senate report for illegally funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to the DNC during Bill Clinton's presidency. 'During the trial, the prosecutors would have linked Ashe to the Clinton bagman Ng. It would have been very embarrassing. His death was conveniently timed,' The New York Post reported.

Mark Weiner, 62, died on July 26. He had been due to be part of the Rhode Island delegation to the convention but pulled out due to ill health. However, Weiner, who was suffering from leukemia, still planned to travel to Philadelphia to see Bill Clinton speak and was dressing for the trip when he suddenly said he felt ill. Weiner, who raised prodigious amounts of money for both Clintons, never woke up. Both Bill and Hillary attended his funeral in Providence last week, with the former president giving the eulogy, remembering his old pal as 'forever young, forever exuberant … always just a little too much.'

Victor Thorn, 54, a journalist and strong critic of the couple climbed a mountain near his State College, Pennsylvania home on his August 1 birthday and shot himself to death. He wrote a trilogy of books on the Clintons, devoting one of the books to the number of their contacts who had mysteriously died

Shawn Lucas, 38, a lawyer who supported Bernie Sanders, was found dead on August 2 on the bathroom floor of his Washington DC apartment. Just a month earlier he had attempted to serve papers on Wasserman-Schultz in a fraud case that alleges the party had unfairly favored Hillary Clinton in the primaries over Sanders. A video of Lucas taking the papers to the DNC's Washington headquarters has been viewed almost 400,000 times as of Wednesday morning on YouTube. In it, Lucas, who was said to have been a Sanders supporter and worked for a company called One Source Process, calls serving the papers 'the most gratifying thing I have ever done.' Lucas's mother Susan told Daily Mail Online the family is currently awaiting results of an autopsy and she does not know why her son died. 'He was a young man — 38. He was in good health,' she said. 'But these things happen when people in seemingly good health suddenly die.

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Postby Cordelia » Fri Aug 12, 2016 1:18 pm

I can't help but wonder what the Wikileak reward offer of $20,000 "for information leading to the conviction of Rich’s murderer" means. Isn't the $20K added to the pot of the MPDC standard award offer of $25,000, which means the investigation is entirely in their hands? If there are political shenanigans going on, some scapegoated schmuck could be arrested, charged & convicted, case closed (or not, as was Chandra Levy's, just last week). Because, really, when you think about it, a $20,000.00 reward for a supposedly significant, high-profile crime isn't that high. Is it symbolic? Flaming the flames? If there's a sincere motive to find the real perpetrator(s) why not, instead, put up money to hire a private investigator who will work independently?

It's hard to imagine the pain Rich's family is going through as they struggle to navigate a way through an event of such overwhelming shock, grief and disbelief. Never mind that they're relying on an investigation run by strangers in the dark, seedy underworld of a large metropolitan homicide department.And, far from their own home and base of support. Who in the world can prepare for such an event? Those who care most about finding a killer are the victim's family members, so, when one thinks about it, if there are reasons to mishandle or bury a case, they have to be managed.

"In a statement to Business Insider on Wednesday, Brad Bauman, a spokesperson for the Rich family, thanked investigators and implored high-profile figures to stop attempting to politicize Rich's death by perpetuating unfounded theories about the shooting. " http://www.businessinsider.com/dnc-seth ... ize-2016-8

If Bauman is (a co- founder) of the Pastorum Group, as Wikileaks claims, who are they?

New Firm Focus: The Pastorum Group


Feb 17, 2016 By Sean J. Miller

"Communications consultants with progressive client lists are moving to fill the void left by the demise of FitzGibbon Media. The firm shuttered late last year after sexual harassment and assault allegations against founder and president Trevor FitzGibbon became public.

Many practitioners wondered how a progressive firm could be such a hostile environment for its female staff. Now, the Pastorum Group, recently launched by Brad Bauman, Tory Brown, Michelle Coyle and Josh Cohen, is making a pitch for new business by making a point of saying its principals live the values of the progressive movement.

“In our business, we sometimes forget our firms need to be in line with what we actually believe,” said Bauman, former executive director of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. “We need to actually do business in the most compassionate, most progressive way we possibly can.”

Moreover, Cohen noted their firm has a “culture that is accessible, egalitarian and diverse.”'

Continued......
https://www.campaignsandelections.com/c ... orum-group

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Postby seemslikeadream » Mon Aug 22, 2016 11:28 am

‘Assange kill attempt’? Unknown man climbs Ecuador’s London embassy, sheltering WikiLeaks chief

Published time: 22 Aug, 2016 06:49Edited time: 22 Aug, 2016 07:23

© Peter Nicholls / Reuters

Social media users are in a panic after WikiLeaks said an unknown man had climbed the Ecuadorian embassy in London where Julian Assange has been staying for four years. Users suggested that it was probably an assassination attempt, “ordered by Clinton.”
“…At 2:47am an unknown man scaled the side wall [and the] window of the Ecuadorian embassy in London; fled after being caught by security,” a statement from WikiLeaks said early Monday morning.

“Male intruder at 2.47am climbed this wall of the Ecuadorian embassy in London where Assange has asylum https://t.co/6ZIHDkuquJ

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 22, 2016″

Later the group said that the intruder was “male” and he climbed the Ecuadorian embassy where “Assange has asylum.”

More at:

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Postby brekin » Mon Aug 22, 2016 2:21 pm

seemslikeadream wrote:‘Assange kill attempt’? Unknown man climbs Ecuador’s London embassy, sheltering WikiLeaks chief
Published time: 22 Aug, 2016 06:49Edited time: 22 Aug, 2016 07:23
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters

Social media users are in a panic after WikiLeaks said an unknown man had climbed the Ecuadorian embassy in London where Julian Assange has been staying for four years. Users suggested that it was probably an assassination attempt, “ordered by Clinton.”
“…At 2:47am an unknown man scaled the side wall [and the] window of the Ecuadorian embassy in London; fled after being caught by security,” a statement from WikiLeaks said early Monday morning.
“Male intruder at 2.47am climbed this wall of the Ecuadorian embassy in London where Assange has asylum https://t.co/6ZIHDkuquJ
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 22, 2016″
Later the group said that the intruder was “male” and he climbed the Ecuadorian embassy where “Assange has asylum.”
More at:
https://www.rt.com/news/356697-man-clim ... y-assange/


Jeez, talk about your leaps of logic. Some guy is "caught" (but then fled? you mean escaped? resisted arrest? never really caught?) scaling the embassy and of course RT has to pass on that "users" thought it was an assassination attempt, ordered by Clinton. Instead of possibly just a wingnut wanting to share his manifesto with Assange. Or more likely, the latest Wikileaks intern having to help generate news copy. And aren't there any pictures? Is the utility looking man him or just a bad place holder image?

Do people think intelligence services are so hard up/stupid they have to send in a three story Tom Cruise or Trump Tower suction cup man to take someone out? Wouldn't that draw a little attention? And wouldn't it be extremely inconvenient to make Assange a martyr by assassinating him? Wouldn't that exactly play into everyones fears that Wikileaks does have something incredibly mind blowing on Clinton, which they would never have to even release because Assange being killed would be a bigger story than anything else?

Seems like this is more desperate pr and bid for further relevancy.

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Postby MacCruiskeen » Sat Aug 27, 2016 9:29 am

^^brekin, your agenda becomes ever clearer and your M.O ever more blatant. All you ever do is leap in to defend Teh Authoritay and pour scorn on anyone who doesn't. It is desperate stuff:

brekin wrote:possibly just a wingnut wanting to share his manifesto with Assange. Or more likely, the latest Wikileaks intern having to help generate news copy.


:ohno:

Yeah, it's not as if the US (and the UK) have any history of assassinating people, is it? Or of describing Julian Assange, in particular, as a terrorist!

I strongly recommend that anyone honestly interested in this issue watch the 3-minute YouTube clip at the end of this article; it's a compilation of U S Demands to Assassinate Assange.

Assange Assassination Attempt? Cops Took 2 Hours To Respond To Embassy Breach

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The Wikileaks Twitter account reported early this week that an unidentified man attempted to scale the wall of the Ecuadorian Embassy in the U.K. at 2:47 am. The “cat burglar” escaped security and managed to flee to safety while embassy security waited two hours for U.K. police to take the two minute walk from the police station to the embassy housing internationally-known whistleblower Julian Assange.

The Wikileaks founder has been confined to the embassy since August 2012, when Ecuador granted Assange political asylum to keep him out of the British government’s jurisdiction. According to British Foreign Secretary William Hague, Assange would under no circumstances be granted safe passage out of the country.

The Ecuadorian and British governments have been at odds over this issue ever since, with Britain immediately threatening to revoke the embassy’s diplomatic status. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino called the U.K.’s bluff at the time and continued to provide a safe haven for Assange. “I don’t think they will dare to infringe international law … Diplomatic headquarters cannot be broken into, we can’t imagine that happening,” Patino asserted back in 2012.

It appears U.K. police have been much more concerned about Assange regaining his freedom than protecting the embassy’s safety. At one point, Scotland Yard issued a 24-hour guard at the embassy at the expense of its citizens. According to the BBC:

BBC wrote:“Between June 2012 and October 2014, direct policing costs were £7.3m, with £1.8m spent on overtime, police said. Scotland Yard confirmed the cost of the operation to UK taxpayers in the first 28 months, until 31 October last year, had reached £9m.”


Yet it took over two hours for police to respond to a crime committed approximately 120 seconds from the police station.

The Ecuadorian government released a statement earlier expressing its extreme disappointment in the U.K.’s “inadequate” response:

The Government of Ecuador wrote:“The Embassy of Ecuador to the United Kingdom reports that in the early morning hours of 22 August 2016, an unidentified person sought to gain unauthorized access to its embassy in London.

“The Embassy has made available to the UK diplomatic police the evidence in its possession to help clarify this serious incident.

“According to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961), the host country has the special duty to take all appropriate steps to protect the premises of any diplomatic mission against any form of intrusion or harm. In this case, the security of the Ecuadorian Embassy in the UK is the responsibility of the British authorities.

“The Ecuadorian Government therefore expresses its concern about the inadequate response by the British authorities, who only arrived at the embassy more than two hours after the incident took place.

“The Government of Ecuador regrets that, despite the enormous resources that the British government has undertaken to prevent Julian Assange leaving the Ecuadorian embassy, the authorities did not respond more quickly to this extremely serious attempt an unauthorized entry.


“The Government of Ecuador expresses its willingness to cooperate with the security forces in the UK to prevent future incidents and renews its commitment to protect Julian Assange.”


This attempt to break into the embassy comes less than a month after the Assange promised to release another batch of emails via Wikileaks containing sensitive information on the Clinton Foundation. Many U.S. officials and media figures have previously called for the extrajudicial killing of Julian Assange, leading many to speculate that the break in could have been a failed assassination attempt.

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Postby MacCruiskeen » Sat Aug 27, 2016 10:43 am

The break-in attempt took place at 2:47 a.m. on Monday August 22nd.

WikiLeaks ‏@wikileaks 22. Aug.

16 mins ago at 2:47am a "cat burgler" scaled the side wall+window of the Ecuadorian embassy in London; fled after being caught by security.
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@ardilore Fled after being physically confronted.
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@wikileaks @ardilore did they get him on security cameras?
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@CassandraRules @ardilore Yes.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/767549022592794624


The following day, Wikileaks tweeted (large type in the original):

WikiLeaks ‏@wikileaks 23. Aug.

UK police took 2h to respond to Assange Embassy intruder despite 24h covert op & police station 2 mins walk away.

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Postby MacCruiskeen » Sat Aug 27, 2016 11:11 am

Google News search results for:

assange ecuadorian embassy london

(parameter: news / last seven days)

What's really striking about those search results: the UK "qualities" (The Guardian, The Times, the BBC, etc.) appear to have remained completely silent about this incident. The same is true of CNN, MSNBC, FOX, the NYT and WaPo, and all the other US mass media -- practically in their entirety.

Why wasn't this news? What's their excuse? Especially when the Ecuadorian Embassy quickly issued a strong public complaint about the unconscionably delayed police response (while renewing their commitment to defending Assange)?
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Postby MacCruiskeen » Sat Aug 27, 2016 11:58 am

Same with a German news search: Assange Botschaft. There's been an almost complete news blackout in Germany's media. None of the commercial or state-run TV stations and none of the "quality" rags appear to have said a single word about this incident.

Only the crappy news magazine FOCUS and the tabloid BILD reported. (In the US: Breitbarts. In the UK: the Express and the Mirror.)

Ecuador blasts British security forces after intruder scales walls of London Embassy in 'Julian Assange assassination attempt'

12:32, 23 Aug 2016
Updated 12:59, 23 Aug 2016
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Fans of Wikileaks founder blame America following security breach after site said it would release “a lot more” documents to surprise voters ahead of election

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Postby Cordelia » Sun Aug 28, 2016 2:52 pm

August 25th airing of video of Assange speaking further on the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich, as the case moves closer to MPDC's cold catacombs.

Megyn Kelly Corners Assange Over Recent Claims: ‘Why Are You So Interested in Seth Rich’s Killer?’

by J.D. Durkin | 9:59 pm, August 25th, 2016

http://www.mediaite.com/online/megyn-ke ... hs-killer/


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Julian Assange’s Lawyer Found Dead Under Mysterious Circumstances
http://www.newsbbc.net/2016/09/julian-a ... under.html

Approximately a month after Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, released a batch of incriminating Hillary Clinton emails, his reputable lawyer, John Jones, was found dead.

BeforeItsNews reports that Jones, 48, was killed on August 15, 2016, when he was run over a by a commuter train in Britain. Police arrived at the West Hampstead train station in North London at 7:07 AM and pronounced him dead at the scene.


Though authorities were quick to rule the lawyer’s death a suicide, WikiLeaks has countered that claim, stating it was foul play.

Jones was a top human rights lawyer who worked on the same team as Amal Clooney, wife of George Clooney. His specialty was extradition, war crimes, and counter-terrorism. Many of the cases he took concerned former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Lebanon and Cambodia.
To say that his presence and activism will be missed in the world is an understatement. The lawyer leaves behind a wife, two children, and a law consultancy.


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Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Sep 14, 2016 9:54 pm

Concerns raised over hospital's treatment of 'brilliant' barrister who was hit by train

A private hospital has been told it must make changes after the death of Mr Jones

Published: 19 August, 2016
By WILLIAM McLENNAN

A LEADING human rights lawyer was allowed to walk out of a private psychiatric hospital at 5am while “really unwell” just hours before he jumped in front of a train, an inquest heard.

John Jones QC, a barrister who worked on high-profile war crimes trials at The Hague, died instantly in the collision in West Hampstead on April 18 this year, St Pancras Coroners Court heard yesterday (Thursday).

Mr Jones, a married father-of-two, was the head of international law at Doughty Street Chambers, Bloomsbury.

He had been admitted to the private Nightingale Hospital in Lisson Grove, Marylebone, in March, with a number of mental health issues, which had been given a “working diagnosis” of bipolar disorder and anxiety by his psychiatrist.

But the court heard that he spent the majority of the time alone in his room, refusing to attend therapy sessions or even eat in the communal dinning room.

Coroner Mary Hassell raised concerns about his treatment and said: “He was in his room, lying on his bed or on his laptop. That seems fairly awful in therapeutic terms. To me if I were worried about a person that was mentally unwell I would think that environment was the worst possible environment for them.”

Ms Hassell is to write to the hospital demanding changes she believes must be made to prevent future deaths. She said patients at psychiatric hospitals must be made to engage with therapy.

She said: “I think his failure to engage was part and parcel of his illness.”

On the day before his death, Mr Jones, who lived in had spent the day with his family, who had become increasing concerned about his wellbeing. The inquest heard that Mr Jones may have been suffering from the side effects of withdrawal from his medication. He returned to the hospital, where he was a voluntary inpatient, that night, but at 5am the following morning he was allowed to leave the hospital after filling out his own risk assessment form.

Ms Hassell questioned the efficacy of such a form, which she described as “perfunctory”. She said: “Surely there will be in an incentive for him just to tick 'no I've not got a risk of this' and then just leave.”

In a statement, read to the court, his father, Hugh Jones, said: “I was astonished he had gone out so early in the morning when he was in such a bad way.”

Mental health nurse, Katie McTaggart, who agreed to let him leave, said he had shown no signs of being a danger to himself. The court heard that, under the Mental Health Act, she could have stopped Mr Jones leaving if she was sufficiently worried about his state of mind. Questioned about allowing Mr Jones to leave the hospital at 5am, Ms McTaggart said: “We can't section someone because it's early in the morning.”

She said the form was only “one aspect” of their risk assessment, adding: “We do constant risk assessments as nurses.”

She said: “I didn't have any concerns about him having suicidal plans or planning to harm himself”.

The court had heard that Mr Jones, who lived in Hampstead Garden Suburbs, struggled to continue to work as his condition worsened. He had represented Julian Assange as the Swedish government attempted to extradite the Wikileaks founder. Among his other clients were Saif Gaddafi, the son of the fallen Libyan leader, and Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president serving a 50-year sentence.

At the time of his death, he was described by colleagues as a “brilliant and creative lawyer”.

Doughty Street Chambers said in a statement: "John was admired and appreciated for his amazing sense of humour, his professionalism and his deep commitment to justice and the rule of law."

Returning a narrative determination, Ms Hassell said that she had no doubt he intended to jump in front of the train, but added: “The state of his mental health at the time meant he lacked the necessary intent to categorise this as suicide.”

She said: “It seems to me that at the time of his death he was actually very poorly.”

She said that CCTV footage proved that he acted alone, adding: “I rule out completely the action of any other person.”

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