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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. <\/p>\n
Consortium News<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Julian Assange called me yesterday from Belmarsh prison. His incarceration in the time of Covid 19 threatens his<\/p>\n
Posted by Vaughan Smith onThursday, April 9, 2020<\/p>\n
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