WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has filed a sweeping criminal complaint in Sweden accusing 30 Nobel Foundation officials of misappropriation, facilitating war crimes, and turning the Peace Prize into what he calls “an instrument of war.”️...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has filed a sweeping criminal complaint in Sweden accusing 30 Nobel Foundation officials of misappropriation, facilitating war crimes, and turning the Peace Prize into what he calls “an instrument of war.”

Assange is asking Swedish authorities to immediately freeze the 11 million SEK prize money before its transfer to Machado. The complaint says Nobel administrators breached their fiduciary duty by approving a payout to a figure who has openly advocated foreign military intervention.

️ Assange cites statements in which Machado supports US military escalation around Venezuela and endorses strikes that would kill civilians. Nobel officials, he argues, “converted an instrument of peace into an instrument of war.”

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    On 7 October, WikiLeaks began publishing emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.[296] On 15 October, the Ecuadorian government severed Assange’s Internet connection from until December because of election interference.[297] According to surveillance reports of Assange provided by UC Global, on 19 October, associates of Assange removed boxes covered with blankets and about 100 hard drives from the embassy.[298]

    In November 2016, WikiLeaks asked Donald Trump Jr. to share a WikiLeaks tweet with the made-up quote “Can’t we just drone this guy?” which the website True Pundit claimed that Hillary Clinton had made about Assange.[299] After the election, WikiLeaks and Assange requested that the president-elect Donald Trump push Australia to appoint Assange as ambassador to the US.

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