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Assange Loses 30 Pounds in British Prison, Gives Message: "Please Save My Life."

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Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom Professor Nils Melzer is the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on Torture. Melzer and his team’s visit to Assange lasted for four hours. For three of those four hours Melzer and two medical experts, Professor Duarte Nuno Vieira from Portugal and Dr. Pau Perez-Sales from Spain conducted a medical assessment of Assange. Assange has been deemed not medically fit to participate in the proceedings, even via video link. At the end of his visit, Melzer asked Assange whether he had anything further to say. “‘Yes’, he said, ‘please save my life.’” Cell Number 37, ‘Britain’s Guantanamo Bay’ – A Single Occupancy Cell, Furnished Sparsely With A Plastic Chair, Metal Bed And Steel Toilet. For over 150 days this has been Julian Assange’s residence, whether he likes it or not. And a judge has ruled today, he is to remain there even after his jail sentence is over. Swiftly after his asylum status was stripped by the Ecuadoria