This
report came from yesterday. The interview, with Afshin Rattansi, is
below along with a Democracy Now! Item.
Assange
psychologically
tortured to ‘breaking point’
by ‘democratic
states,’ UN
rapporteur tells RT
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RT,
31
May, 2019
Jailed
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange shows clear signs of degrading
and inhumane treatment which only adds to his deteriorating health,
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer told RT.
Assange
has “all the symptoms typical for a person who has been exposed to
prolonged psychological torture,” Melzer told RT’s Afshin
Rattansi. This adds to the toll of his deteriorating physical state
caused by a lack of adequate medical care for several years, he said.
Melzer
said he was judging from two decades of experience in working with
POWs and political prisoners, and only after applying “scientific”
UN methods to assess Assange’s condition. But the journalist’s
case still “shocked” him.
An
individual has been isolated and singled out by several democratic
states, and persecuted systematically… to the point of breaking
him.
Earlier
this month, a UK court sentenced the WikiLeaks co-founder to nearly a
year in jail for skipping bail in 2012. The courts are now deciding
whether to extradite Assange to the US where he is wanted for 17
charges under the Espionage Act. He can end up serving up to 175
years in prison if proven guilty.
Also
in May, Sweden reopened an investigation into the allegations of rape
by Assange, which he denies. The probe was originally dropped in
2017.
WikiLeaks
warned that the journalist’s health had “significantly
deteriorated” during the seven years he spent living in the
Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and continued to worsen after he was
evicted in April and placed in a British prison. According to
WikiLeaks, he was recently moved to the prison’s “hospital wing.”
This is the RT interview
This is the RT interview
UN
Torture Rapporteur:
Western States Persecuting
Julian Assange to the
Point
of BREAKING HIM!
Going
Underground, RT
And an item from Democracy Now!
U.N.
Special Rapporteur
Calls for Julian Assange to
Be Freed, Citing
“Psychological Torture”
Democracy
Now!
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