Dozens of doctors warn of the possible death of Assange in his British prison

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LONDON (Reuters) - More than 60 doctors have sent an open letter to Britain's Homeland Security Secretary Pretty Patel, expressing concern over the health of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, warning of his possible death in prison in Britain.

According to Agence France-Presse, the doctors demanded in their letter published today to transfer Assange from Belmarsh Prison in south-east London to a university hospital and based their assessment on "horrific accounts of eyewitnesses" during the appearance of Assange in court on 21 October last in addition to A report by the UN Special Rapporteur on torture cases Nils Melzer earlier this month.

In their 16-page letter, the doctors expressed deep concern as doctors about Assange's physical and mental health, stressing that he should be subjected to an urgent assessment by health experts of his physical and psychological state of health and warned that “if this kind of urgent assessment is not done there are real concerns that He died in prison. ”

The doctors who wrote the letter are from the United States, Australia, Britain, Sweden, Italy, Germany, Sri Lanka and Poland.

It is noteworthy that Christine Hravinson editor of the site Wikileaks revealed last September that the British authorities are 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 the terms of his bail in 2012 when he sought asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid being deported to Sweden, tried and possibly deported to the United States. .

Assange was widely acclaimed after he published in WikiLeaks a large number of classified US leaked documents, including some that reveal US war crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, which have provoked US resentment and calls for his extradition.

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