14 DAY TRIAL // Julian Assange has just marked his 1,000th day spent in the London Ecuadorean embassy, and he’s now filing a complaint to the police, seeking an investigation into the actions of the United States against WikiLeaks.
Assange wrote a 48-page affidavit in which he describes evidence of US military intelligence directed at his organization and himself, dating back to 2009.
The WikiLeaks founder says the affidavit concerns two events involving Sweden and Germany. “These events occur within the context of publicly reported FBI activities against WikiLeaks in the UK, Denmark and Iceland from 2009 to the present, which concern my work,” Assange wrote.
One instance, he says, is the physical surveillance by US military intelligence from 26-30 December 2009, which resulted in the conviction of Bradley Manning.
The second incident concerns the “illegal seizure” of a suitcase belonging to Assange on September 27, 2010. At the time, he was on a direct flight within the Schengen border-free area from Stockholm Arlanda to Berlin Tegel airports.
According to Assange, the suitcase contained three laptops that had WikiLeaks material. The documents included evidence of a serious war crime, the WikiLeaks leader states, namely the massacre of more than sixty women and children by US military forces in Garani, Afghanistan.
Evidence of this fact, he says, was corroborated by testimony in the Bradley Manning case.
“The suspect seizure or theft occurred at a time of intense attempts by the US to stop WikiLeaks’ publications of 2010,” the affidavit states.
Furthermore, the complaint filed by Assange reveals he found out through an intelligence source that the Swedish Security Service requested information about him from an Australian intelligence organization, to which a response was granted in a few days’ time.
“If the US military's surveillance of me in Germany was unlawful, then its use in Bradley Manning's trial may have also been unlawful and that such a use of illegally obtained evidence could have consequences for Bradley Manning's pending appeal to the US Army Court of Criminal Appeal.”