WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been moved to the hospital wing of the Belmarsh prison in the UK, prompting concerns about his health pending the hearing on his extradition to the US.
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Assange’s health had already “significantly deteriorated” during the nearly seven years he spent inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and has continued to get worse over the seven weeks he has spent in Belmarsh, WikiLeaks said in a statement on Wednesday.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1133847992656715776
“The decision of prison authorities to move him to the health ward speaks for itself,” said WikiLeaks, adding that Assange has lost a lot of weight and was barely able to speak to his Swedish lawyer last week.
“Assange’s health situation on Friday was such that it was not possible to conduct a normal conversation with him,” his lawyer Per Samuelson told reporters after visiting Belmarsh, but the quote was barely reported in Sweden, let alone elsewhere.
Sweden has rejected Samuelson’s motion to delay Assange’s extradition hearing, though he was never charged with anything. Swedish investigators never interviewed Assange about claims of “sexual assault” that seem to have been trumped-up as a pretext to extradite him to the US in 2012, and prompted him to seek asylum in Ecuador.
The preliminary hearing on Washington’s extradition request is still scheduled for Thursday, May 30. The US has charged Assange with 18 counts under the Espionage Act, which carry a sentence of up to 175 years in prison.
“Julian’s case is of major historic significance. It will be remembered as the worst attack on press freedom in our time,” said WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson, urging people everywhere to oppose their politicians, courts, police and prisons from being abused to “leave this black stain on history.”
Original: https://www.rt.com/news/460594-wikileaks-assange-prison-hospital/
If Assange dies in custody, the dead man's switch will trigger. Everyone knows this. They better make sure he doesn't die in prison.
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I’m sorry @ddrfr33k, but all Wikileaks publications are one big “dead man's switch” that was already triggered. Everybody can see who are the monsters and what they are capable to do. It is not important to them if more truth was revealed. They will kill him to set an example, to strike a fear into everybody who thinks to ask for their accountability. It’s the final stage before the great war.
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Oh, you don't know about the insurance files?
They're a set of archived and encrypted documents that have the decryption keys locked by a dead man's switch. From what I understand, they were set aside in the event Assange was captured or imprisoned for what Wikileaks does. So far, no decryption keys have been released yet. We'll have to see what happens from here on out.
Edit: here's some of the insurance files: https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/b9lqtj/comprehensive_list_of_insurance_files/
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I know, but they are not relevant. You already have enough evidences to hang all the Deep State criminals many times over, but who is gonna do it? They will kill Assange, and we will know even more about their crimes, but the question is: Who is going to bring them to justice?
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There won’t be a trial. They are preparing to murder him. I have put a precedent to that Imperial plan:
https://steemit.com/wikileaks/@lighteye/breaking-news-killing-assange
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