Melzer: Assange is being mistreated in British prisons and his life is in danger

Geneva-Sana

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being mistreated in Britain's jails, putting his life at risk, the UN rapporteur on torture said.

"Mr Assange's life is in danger," Melzer, who visited Assange in May in London, said on Thursday, expressing concern that Assange's health has continued to deteriorate since his arrest and detention earlier this year.

The editor of WikiLeaks website, Christine Hravenson, revealed in September that British authorities were holding Assange in conditions of detention worse than those held by terrorists.

Assange was arrested in London after being forcibly expelled from the Ecuadorian embassy on April 11 and sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for violating his 2012 bail terms when he sought asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid being deported to Sweden, tried and possibly deported to the states. United States.

Assange was widely acclaimed after he published in WikiLeaks, which he founded a large number of classified US leaked documents, including some documents that reveal US forces' war crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, sparking US resentment and calling for his extradition.

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