Assange’s prison has “no legal basis” according to Nils Melzer, the UN rapporteur against torture.
This Tuesday, December 8, 2020, the rapporteur of the United Nations Organization against torture, Nils Melzer, asked the British authorities for the release of Julian Assange, after learning of a serious outbreak of Covid-19 in the prison where he is being held .
Melzer has asked for the immediate release of Assange, because there are 65 inmates with Covid-19 in the prison. In addition, the UN rapporteur has also questioned the processes that have been brought against the founder of WikiLeaks, who has been a prisoner since May 2019.
“Assange is not convicted and he is not a threat to anyone, so his prolonged and solitary confinement, in a high security prison, is not necessary or proportionate, it has no legal basis,” said Melzer.
The WikiLeaks founder is 10 years old after his first arrest, where he was detained on an accusation of sex crimes in Sweden, however, the charges were dropped and his prison became “preventive”.
The United States has asked the United Kingdom to extradite the founder of WikiLeaks, to try him in his country and request a sentence of 175 years in prison for “Leaking confidential information”.
For his part, Melzer has also asked the British justice not to extradite Assange, due to the “irregularities” of the Human Rights process that the founder of WikiLeaks in the United States could go through.
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