Elisabeth Massi Fritz (born 24 July 1967) is a Swedish lawyer who has received recognition as counsel for an injured party for female victims of crime.
[8] In 2017, she was counsel for the plaintiff in a case of gang rape involving about a dozen men of in the Stockholm suburb of Fittja, of which five stood trial.
[11] In 2019, Elisabeth Massi Fritz was representing one of the alleged rape victims in an 9 year old preliminary investigation involving WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange.
While referring to the third prosecutor to take up the investigation (Eva-Marie Persson), Massi Fritz said: "She is going to be forced to take steps quickly to ensure that we have time to get a potential criminal charge in this case.
[13] Assange was vilified in the media for over nine years as Swedish prosecutors opened and closed the preliminary investigation without filing charges.