Swedish speakers of HN: Please check if testimony on Assange was manipulated

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6 years ago

Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and supporter of Assange, claims, based on transcripts of emails between Swedish policemen and his own fluency in Swedish, that the senior police officer told the policewoman to "rewrite" the purported victim's testimony: he accuses the Swedish police of "proactive manipulation of evidence"[0][1].

But then a HN reader, based on a screenshot of the transcripts provided in [1], comes to the conclusion that Melzer is confused about the emails[2]. However, in the tree belonging to that HN comment, another commenter posted the link to the entire freedom of information document provided by the police[3].

Could those of you who understand Swedish take a look at that document (I think one would want to start at around page 9 of 16) and clarify the emails and the situation?

[0] https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=24838

[1] https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22203599

[3] https://data.ddosecrets.com/file/Assange/Assange-Sthlm-polismyndighet.pdf

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