They isolate him, keep him in limbo: UN Special Rapporteur condemns the torture of Julian Ass… – Market Research Telecast

In a recent interview with MRT, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, stated that Julian Assange has been subjected to imprisonment. absolutely unnecessary and illegal, just in case they finally decide to extradite him to the United States.

In addition, he stressed that the mental health of the WikiLeaks founder is related to the abuse he has suffered.

One cannot recover from torture if you continue to torture him, and it is precisely what is being done to it. They isolate him, keep him in limbosaid Melzer, who also clarifies that Assange is not serving any sentence andni he is even accused of nothing criminal.

The rapporteur gives as an example the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who, unlike Assange, was under house arrest while accused of crimes against humanity, such as the murders and forced disappearances of thousands of people.

Assange, 49, is accused in the US of espionage and hacking for the publication since 2010 of hundreds of thousands of pages of secret military documents and diplomatic cables on Washingtons activities in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which were disseminated by its WikiLeaks leak portal.

In April 2019, the cyber activist was detained at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London (United Kingdom), where for seven years he had obtained refuge and even the Ecuadorian nationality.

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