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usdgknsdgon UN special rapporteur on torture on his investigation into the case of Assange

> When one does this it is clear that there will in fact be two documents regarding the interrogation and a separate PM explaining this.

Melzer claims there is only one statement/document. From the article: "We don’t know, because the first statement was directly written over in the computer program and no longer exists."

usdgknsdgon UN special rapporteur on torture on his investigation into the case of Assange

> Also, he seems to be wrong about "manipulation of evidence" by Swedish police: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22204121

If you trust claims of a more or less random person writing a comment on this site.

usdgknsdgon UN special rapporteur on torture on his investigation into the case of Assange

> Melzer actually gives us absolutely no reason to think that any evidence were forged, assuming one is not going to just take his word for it.

If Melzer was just "some random opinions" it would be easy to dismiss. But as UN Special Rapporteur on Torture one should probably put some weight on his professional opinion. Or Swedish officials should explain why the allegations are wrong, but they reportedly refuse to do so.

Also if Melzer fabricates the allegations here, that would be a problem for credibility of the position of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and investigated. Another reason for Swedish and UK officials to answer in some form.

The article also contains original copies of the mail exchanges between the Swedish police (at least it says so), but I don't speak Swedish and so cannot read it.