ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Assange Not Sick With Covid-19, But Says Many in Belmarsh Are – Consortium News

April 10, 2020

In a phone conversation with Vaughan Smith, Julian Assange, apparently uninfected, says the virus is ripping through Belmarsh prison and that he spends 30 minutes a day in a crowded prison yard.

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Julian Assange has told a friend in a telephone conversation on Wednesday that he is living in a prison in which the coronavirus is ripping through the population. He told photojournalist Vaughan Smith, founder of Londons Frontline Club, that he is isolated 23 1/2 hours a day and spends 30 minutes in a prison yard packed with other inmates. More than 150 Belmarsh guards are in self-isolation and the prison is barely functioning, Smith said.

Assange did not show up for a video link to his case management hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court on Tuesday. A court official was overheard by three people present in the courtroom saying that Assange was unwell. He is not infected with Covid-19, but Vaughan says his life is threatened by it in prison.

Julian Assange called me yesterday from Belmarsh prison. His incarceration in the time of Covid 19 threatens his

Posted by Vaughan Smith onThursday, April 9, 2020

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