After last week’s hearing as to whether the extradition of Julian Assange to the U.S. might provoke a mental breakdown, Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, put matters on their feet. In an interview with RT’s Going Underground, he said that Assange has no psychological problems, except as a by-product of the abuse from his isolation at the U.K.’s high-security HM Prison Belmarsh.
“If he should die in prison, he’s effectively been tortured to death. That’s the reality of it. And I’m not exaggerating.” Hence, it is a phony issue to pose the U.K. as protecting Assange from the possible torture in the U.S. He’s being tortured and he likely would be treated similarly in the U.S.
