On
14/9/16 WikiLeaks released confidential medical and psychological
reports concerning Julian Assange’s situation
This part
one publication consists of three documents: a twenty-seven page
psycho-social and medical assessment from 10 November 2015, a report
from Mr. Assange’s physician from 8 December 2015 and a dentist’s
report from 31 July 2015. The in-depth assessment of the
psychological and physical effects that the severely restrictive
conditions of confinement within the small premises of the Embassy
have had on Mr. Assange is by far the most detailed insight into the
circumstances of his life inside the Embassy — including the
multi-million dollar covert operation the United Kingdom admits to
subjecting him to. He has been deprived of his liberty since 7
December 2010. He has not been charged with an offence.
The
deterioration of Mr. Assange’s physical health has arisen as a
result of the extremely restrictive conditions of his confinement.
The United Kingdom has formally refused safe access to even the most
basic hospital diagnostics.
On February
5th this year the United Nations found that Mr. Assange’s effective
detention in the Embassy of Ecuador by the United Kingdom and Sweden
is arbitrary and unlawful and that he must be freed and compensated.
One of the factual elements that informed the conclusions of its
16-month investigation was Mr. Assange’s deteriorating health and
the inability to safely access basic healthcare.
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