US EditionAssange Files Complaint to Block Venezuelan's Nobel Prize
Julian Assange claims the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to María Corina Machado misappropriates $1.18 million and violates Alfred Nobel's will by endorsing military aggression.
- This year, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange filed a criminal complaint in Sweden seeking to halt release of more than $1 million to Maria Corina Machado, and Swedish police confirmed receipt.
- Assange argues the prize turned `an instrument of peace` into `an instrument of war`, calling this year’s award a `gross misappropriation` facilitating war crimes under Swedish law.
- The complaint details allegations against 30 members of the Nobel Foundation and its leadership, citing Alfred Nobel's 1895 will as legal grounds for violating the prize's peace mandate.
- He is seeking to freeze 11 million Swedish kronor , noting the Nobel Committee awarded Maria Corina Machado the prize in October for democratic rights and peaceful transition.
- Jurisdictional questions arise because the Nobel Committee in Oslo decides the prize, but Julian Assange argues the Stockholm-based Nobel Foundation must handle finances.
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This year's decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado, according to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, raises the question of whether funds from the Nobel Foundation, instead of promoting peace, are being diverted to facilitating aggression, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
By awarding its peace prize to Trump's favorite Venezuelan opposition figure, the coup-plotting and pro-war conspirator María Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee disobeyed the principles enshrined in its founding documents, as well as Swedish law, alleges Julian Assange in an explosive legal brief reviewed by The Grayzone. The Swedish government violated its own laws by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, according to an expl…
The Swedish police announced this Friday that they will not open an investigation after the complaint filed by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange against the Nobel Foundation for having awarded the Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
Julian Assange goes on confrontation with the Nobel Committee!
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