You may recall that the prosecutions key witness against Assange recently recanted his testimony (aka he admitted that he lied).

“A major witness in the United States’ Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder,” Stundin reports. “The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud, made the admission in a newly published interview in Stundin where he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution.”
This major witness would be Iceland’s Sigurdur “Sigi” Thordarson, a paid FBI informant who after his short-lived association with WikiLeaks has been found guilty of sexually abusing nine boys as well as embezzlement, fraud, and theft in his home country. A court-appointed psychologist has found him to be a sociopath.

It's understandable if you missed it. Because all of the major news outlets flat-out refused to cover it.

as of Friday, July 2, there has been literally zero coverage of it in corporate media; not one word in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NBC News, Fox News or NPR. A search online for either “Assange” or “Thordarson” will elicit zero relevant articles from establishment sources, either US or elsewhere in the Anglosphere, even in tech-focused platforms like the Verge, Wired or Gizmodo.

Anyone who's ever watched a movie about organized crime knows that you can't just walk away. This same rule applies to the lawless Assange investigation.
If you've entered into an agreement with our global rulers to testify against Assange, you will not be allowed to back out of this arrangement. Thordarson found this out today.

A key U.S. witness in the conspiracy to commit computer intrusion charge against imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange who earlier this year admitted to fabricating evidence he gave to the FBI has been arrested in Iceland, according to a report in the Icelandic newsmagazine Stundin.

Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson was arrested in Reykjavík on Sept. 24 and put in Iceland’s highest security prison under a “rarely invoked” law that allows police in Iceland to detain someone considered to be in the middle of crime spree, Stundin reported.

This isn't the first time that the prosecution of Assange was sketchy.
Consider the rape allegations that were dropped in 2020. Sweden initially dropped the case against Assange shortly after the accusations were made, but the prosecutor reopened the case after Assange had already talked to police, and he was allowed to leave Sweden.
The details got extremely sketchy.

Defense witness Björn Hurtig said he was allowed under police supervision to examine hundreds of messages, which "suggest things that go against what the claimants have said regarding the rape."

Hurtig, who is Assange's attorney in Sweden, said he saw text messages "speaking of revenge" and taking "economic advantage" of Assange, who is wanted for questioning related to alleged incidents with two women in mid-August 2010.
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Assange's reputation was damaged when the Swedish prosecutor's office told the tabloid newspaper Expressen that he was under investigation for rape shortly after the accusations were made. The leak violates Swedish law, he said.

Sweden then closed the rape investigation in 2017, only to re-open it in 2019, before closing it again.
Of course none of this will ever be reported by our wonderful "free press".