As a result of years of strict prison regime, the physical health of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is deteriorating day after day. That is what his wife Stella Assange has sued.
“His physical condition is getting worse day by day. That’s what happens when you lock a person up to 20 hours a day, restrict visits and treat his well-being in a cruel way,” Stella Assange told journalists for Belmarsh prison, the London detention house where her husband has been in for four years. detention is. “But he’s not trying to give up and keep fighting,” she added.
The United States accuses Assange of stealing and publishing classified information about military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and endangering the lives of informants. His supporters see him as a courageous journalist who exposed war crimes. The legal wrangling over his possible extradition to the US has been dragging on for years. Since 2019, the 51-year-old has been in custody without conviction.
Representatives of the organization Reporters Without Borders, which has been campaigning for Assange’s release for years, said they had a rare appointment with Assange in prison today, but despite confirmation, they were denied access to the detention center in extremis, the organization said. . “That’s just another proof that nothing is normal in this case,” Secretary-General Christophe Deloire told the prison.
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