And then a few weeks ago, after the intervention of a Swedish politician, a new prosecutor - not in Stockholm where Julian and these women have been, but in Gothenburg - began a new case, which of course has resulted in these warrants and of course the Interpolrednotice being put out across this week.
It seems likely that the Saudi rednotice to Interpol provided the Malays a pretext for intercepting and extraditing a columnist who dared to exercise free speech.