My Take | Free Julian Assange now
- The prisoner of conscience is being persecuted by two self-styled leaders of Western democracies, while his own country, Australia, silently ignores his abuse and torture
Julian Assange has been detained under inhumane conditions amounting to torture by the British government at the behest of Washington for more than a year.
As his health has deteriorated, 216 doctors from 33 countries have called for an end to “The ongoing torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange”, the title of a correspondence published in the latest The Lancet, the prestigious British medical journal.
“As a person incarcerated solely for publishing activity, continuing to hold Mr Assange under these conditions represents the torture of a publisher and journalist,” they wrote.
The prisoner of conscience is being persecuted by two self-styled leaders of democracies, while his own country, Australia, silently ignores his abuse and torture.
Assange’s crimes are nothing more or less than exposing the war crimes and hypocrisy of the US and those of its allies. The US extradition case against Assange is a direct assault on international journalism and publishing.