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A group of 117 doctors from 18 countries, in addition to Reporters Without Borders, expressed their solidarity and support to Julian Assange, owner of the WikiLeaks site, condemning the torture he is facing in British prisons and the threat of his extradition to the United States.
"The British government violates Assange's basic right to access to health care," he said, adding that he was tortured in Belmarsh prison. And if he dies in the British prison, as the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations has warned about issues Torture Nils Melzner will have been physically tortured to death. ”
The letter revealed that the doctors ’recommendations have been continuously ignored since Assange underwent a medical examination in 2015 at the Embassy of Ecuador in London where he resorted three years ago to condemn the politicization of basic principles of medicine whose implications go beyond Asang’s condition and called on the governments concerned to end his torture and ensure that he received good care before it's too late.
In turn, Reporters Without Borders launched a petition in which it collected more than twenty thousand signatures to prevent the extradition and trial of Assange to the United States, explaining that the information he published was for the public interest and not spying, as the US administration claims.
More than sixty doctors had sent at the end of last November an open letter to the British Minister of Internal Security expressing their concern about the health status of Assange and the possibility of his death inside his prison and demanded that he be transferred from Belmarsh prison to a hospital after the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture issues, which he referred to Assange continued to be subjected to ill-treatment and abuse, which may soon lead to his life being paid for.
Assange gained wide popularity after he published on WikiLeaks a large number of leaked secret US documents, including some documents that reveal that the American forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo, which sparked a curse on the United States and called for his extradition.
