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GENEVA (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has suffered psychological torture from a defamation campaign and should not be extradited to the United States where he would face a “politicised show trial”, a U.N. human rights investigator said on Friday.Nils Melzer, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture who visited Assange in a high-security London prison on May 9 along with two medical experts, said that he found him agitated, under severe stress and unable to cope with his complex legal case. “Our finding was that Mr. Assange shows all the symptoms of a person who has been exposed to psychological...

Shortened title. Full title: WikiLeaks Issues Statement About Julian Assange Being Moved to Prison Hospital Unit, Express ‘Grave Concerns’ for His Health The health of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has deteriorated so drastically that his lawyer says it is not possible to conduct a normal conversation with him. On Wednesday, WikiLeaks issued a statement expressing grave concerns about the situation. WikiLeaks has grave concerns about the state of health of our publisher, Julian Assange, who has been moved to the health ward of Belmarsh prison. Mr Assange´s health had already significantly deteriorated after seven years inside the Ecuadorian embassy,...

The health of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has deteriorated so drastically that his lawyer says it is not possible to conduct a normal conversation with him. Swedish outlet Upsala Nya Tidning reports that Assange is so ill that he is now in the hospital wing of the prison. “Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s Swedish lawyer wants the arrest hearing on Monday in Uppsala to be postponed. According to the lawyer, who has now visited his client in British prison, Assange is admitted to the medical department and was unable to make a call,” the newspaper reports. Assange is currently imprisoned...