Disclosure Team
Ministry of Justice
102 Petty France
London
SW1H 9AJ
Ms. Emmy Butlin
xxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx.xx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
2 August 2021
Dear Ms. Emmy Butlin
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request – 210703007
Thank you for your request dated 3 July 2021 in which you asked for the following
information from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ):
Dear Ministry of Justice,
On 22 December 2017 A diplomatic note from the US requested Julian Assange’s
provisional arrest.
Could you please release me a copy.
The document is mentioned at Paragraph 8k and 8l https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-
content/uploads/2021/01/USA-v-Assange-judgment-040121.pdf
Yours faithfully,
Emmy Butlin
Your request has been handled under the FOIA.
The MoJ does not hold any information in the scope of your request. This is because we are
not the appropriate authority to contact on this subject.
You may wish to contact the
Foreign and Commonwealth & Development Office with
regards to the diplomatic note received.
Their contact details are:
Freedom of Information requests
Information Rights Unit
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Room WH2.177
King Charles Street
London
SW1A 2AH
United Kingdom
Email
xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
The FOIA does not oblige a public authority to create information to answer a request if the
requested information is not held. The duty is to only provide the recorded information held.
Appeal Rights
If you are not satisfied with this response you have the right to request an internal review by
responding in writing to one of the addresses below within two months of the date of this
response.
xxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Disclosure Team, Ministry of Justice,
You do have the right to ask the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to investigate any
aspect of your complaint. However, please note that the ICO is likely to expect internal
complaints procedures to have been exhausted before beginning their investigation.
Yours sincerely
Disclosure Team Security, Services and Information Governance Group
Ministry of Justice
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