Posted on 11/25/2019 8:48:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
More than 60 doctors have written an open letter saying they fear Julian Assange’s health is so bad that the WikiLeaks founder could die inside a top-security British jail.
The 48-year-old Australian is still fighting a US bid to extradite him from Britain on charges filed under the Espionage Act that could see him given a sentence of up to 175 years in a US prison.
In the letter to the British home secretary, Priti Patel, the doctors called for Assange to be moved from Belmarsh prison in southeast London to a university teaching hospital.
They based their assessment on “harrowing eyewitness accounts” of his 21 October court appearance in London and a 1 November report by Nils Melzer, the United Nations special rapporteur on torture.
Julian Assange to remain in jail pending extradition to US Read more The independent UN rights expert said Assange’s “continued exposure to arbitrariness and abuse may soon end up costing his life”.
Assange used WikiLeaks to publish classified military and diplomatic files in 2010 about US bombing campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq that proved highly embarrassing to Washington.
“We write this open letter, as medical doctors, to express our serious concerns about the physical and mental health of Julian Assange,” the doctors said in their 16-page open letter.
They said they had “concerns about Mr Assange’s fitness” to go through the full extradition hearing, which is set for February.
“Mr Assange requires urgent expert medical assessment of both his physical and psychological state of health,” the wrote.
“Any medical treatment indicated should be administered in a properly equipped and expertly staffed university teaching hospital (tertiary care).
“Were such urgent assessment and treatment not to take place, we have real concerns, on the evidence currently available, that Mr Assange could die in prison.”
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Yeah but what do 4 out of 5 dentists have to say?
Julian Assange is going to didn’t kill himself too?
Another Clinton murder by proxy
use Crest
Pre-suicide set up. He will be so distraught over his failing health that he takes his own life.
Let’s put him in Epstein’s cell where he will be safe.
I thought it was considered unprofessional for a medical person to diagnose or pass judgment on someone they had not examined?
what a shame
Say who killed Seth Rich now!
So not only are they rendering medical opinions without examining him, but they're rendering them without having even laid eyes on him. They're just going off the descriptions given by other people.
Quack, Quack.
I guess they are greasing the wheels for Arkancide.
Just what the CIA wants.
Assange knows that Seth Rich was the source of the DNC data.
Yeah. 60 doctors? Reminds me of that global warming scientific consensus.
Assange likely does not know who killed Seth Rich, but he does know the Russians did not give him the DNC data and has said so.
Does anyone know what the nature of his “health problems” are?
Which friend of Bill and Hill was denied his heart medication and died in jail?
Dirt on Hillary!™ almost always fatal.
Wow, sixty doctors. That makes it settled science.
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