LONDON, Nov 25 — More than 60 doctors wrote an open letter published today saying they feared Julian Assange's health was so bad that the WikiLeaks founder could die inside a top-security British jail. The 48-year-old Australian is still fighting a US bid to extradite him from Britain on charges...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves Southwark Crown Court after being sentenced in London May 1, 2019. — Reuters pic
In the letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel, Britain's interior minister, the doctors call for Assange to be moved from Belmarsh prison in south-east London to a university teaching hospital. Assange used WikiLeaks to publish classified military and diplomatic files in 2010 about US bombing campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq that proved highly embarrassing to the US government.
“Any medical treatment indicated should be administered in a properly equipped and expertly staffed university teaching hospital .
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