{"id":145703,"date":"2019-10-21T12:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T11:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=145703"},"modified":"2019-10-21T10:05:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T09:05:42","slug":"assange-subjected-to-torture-violations-of-due-process-rights-un-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/10\/assange-subjected-to-torture-violations-of-due-process-rights-un-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Assange Subjected to Torture & Violations of Due Process Rights \u2013 UN Envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nils Melzer, Special Rapporteur on Torture, addresses a near-empty press briefing room \u00a9 UN<\/p><\/div>\n

16 Oct 2019 – <\/em>WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has been subjected to \u201cpsychological torture\u201d and his due process rights have been \u201csystematically violated\u201d by all the states involved, according to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer.<\/p>\n

Two medical experts accompanied Melzer when he visited Assange at Belmarsh prison in the UK, he said on Tuesday [15 Oct].<\/p>\n

We came to the conclusion that he had been exposed to psychological torture for a prolonged period of time. That’s a medical assessment.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Melzer\u2019s message fell largely on deaf ears, as only a handful of reporters attended Tuesday\u2019s press conference at the UN headquarters in New York.<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s_GSitdMe1A<\/p>\n

It was not the first time that Melzer has tried to bring attention to Assange\u2019s plight. He wrote an opinion piece about it in June, only to find it ignored or rejected by mainstream media outlets, and ended up publishing open letters to the US, British, Ecuadorian, and Swedish governments in July.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe asked for all the involved states to investigate this case and to alleviate the pressure that has been done on him, and especially to respect his due process rights, which in my view have been systematically violated in all these jurisdictions,\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Melzer said on Tuesday. No country has agreed to do so, he added, even though this was their obligation under the Convention on Torture.<\/p>\n

Also: Too hot to touch? MSM outlets stand united in rejecting op-ed on Assange by UN expert on torture <\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Demonstrators protest outside of Westminster Magistrates Court in support of Julian Assange. \u00a9REUTERS \/ Hannah Mckay<\/p><\/div>\n

British police dragged Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy on April 11, after the government of President Lenin Moreno revoked his asylum, granted in 2012. The WikiLeaks publisher spent almost seven years inside the embassy in London, where he sought refuge from arrest and extradition to the US on charges related to his 2010 publication of top-secret government documents related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Read more: Democratic establishment belatedly embraces \u2018whistleblowers\u2019\u2026but only the \u2018safe\u2019 kind <\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Assange, 48, has been jailed \u2013 and later imprisoned on a 50-week sentence for bail evasion \u2013 at the maximum-security facility used to house terrorists, murderers and other high-profile offenders. He has reportedly spent much of his time there in the prison hospital.<\/p>\n

Though he was due for release on September 22, a judge ruled he would remain locked up pending the hearings on his extradition to the US, scheduled for February 2020. If sent to the US and convicted, he faces up to 175 years behind bars.<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 rt.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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