The Swedish Bar Association has issued a warning to the Swedish lawyer of WikiLeaks frontman Julian Assange, its head said Thursday. "The disciplinary board has decided to hand down a warning to (Bjoern) Hurtig. It was not a united decision," Bar Association Secretary General Anne Ramberg told AFP. The warning, she said, was "in response to the criticism directed to him by an English judge".
Ramberg said some of the disciplinary board's members had wanted to issue Hurtig a warning and a fine, but he was given only a warning. She refused to give more details but said such a warning had no impact on Hurtig's practising. In a February 25 letter, the association had asked Assange's lawyer to explain ethics breach allegations made by the British judge in charge of the WikiLeaks founder's extradition hearing.
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