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WikiLeaks' Assange suffering from 'psychological torture': UN rights expert

Nils Melzer, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture talks with Reuters, after visiting Wikileaks founder Julian Assange earlier this month in London's Belmarsh high-security prison, in Geneva, Switzerland May 31, 2019. [Reuters]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has suffered “psychological torture” from a defamation campaign against him by the media, judges and senior political figures, a United Nations human rights investigator said on Friday.

Nils Melzer, the UN special rapporteur on torture who visited Assange in a high-security London prison on May 9, voiced concern at fresh US criminal charges laid against Assange and reiterated a call for him not to be extradited.

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