{"id":49785,"date":"2019-11-25T08:04:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49785"},"modified":"2019-11-25T08:04:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T13:04:13","slug":"international-group-of-doctors-warns-assange-will-die-in-prison-without-urgent-medical-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49785","title":{"rendered":"International Group Of Doctors Warns Assange Will “Die In Prison” Without Urgent Medical Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

International Group Of Doctors Warns Assange Will “Die In Prison” Without Urgent Medical Care<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

With Washington fighting tooth-and-nail to extradite him from the UK, the notion that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange might die in prison is looking increasingly probable. At this point, it’s more a matter of when: A few weeks, or a few decades.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assange’s health has reportedly deteriorated to such a terrifying degree that a group of 60 doctors have written an open letter warning that they fear the renegade journalist could soon die in a British jail if he doesn’t receive more intensive medical care, <\/strong>the Guardian<\/a>reports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the “open” letter (which was nevertheless still addressed to British Home Secretary Priti Patel), the doctors called for Assange to be moved to a university teaching hospital from his current digs at the Belmarsh Prison on southeast London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The doctors based their assessment of Assange’s health on the “harrowing eyewitness accounts” of his Oct. 21 court appearance in London and a Nov. 1 report by Nils Melzer, the UN special rapporteur on torture, who has repeatedly issued warnings about Assange’s treatment by the British.<\/strong> In his November report, Melzer said warned that Assange’s “continued exposure to arbitrariness and abuse may soon end up costing his life.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the letter – which stretched to 16 pages – the doctors expressed “serious concerns” about Assange’s mental and physical health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We write this open letter, as medical doctors, to express our serious concerns about the physical and mental health of Julian Assange,”<\/strong> the letter read.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

They expressed doubts about his ability to withstand the full extradition hearing, which is presently set for February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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