top | item 22206811

(no title)

SalientBlue | 6 years ago

>On top of that come the surveillance measures, the insults, the indignities and the attacks by politicians from these countries, up to and including death threats. This constant abuse of state power has triggered serious stress and anxiety in Assange and has resulted in measurable cognitive and neurological harm.

>Why is a man who is neither dangerous nor violent held in solitary confinement for several months when UN standards legally prohibit solitary confinement for periods extending beyond 15 days?

It is much more than 'uncertainty of the process'. Every prisoner awaiting their day in court is not held in solitary confinement for months.

discuss

order

shadowgovt|6 years ago

The death threats from politicians are individual American Congesspeople, who have no more power to act on that threat than the average American citizen. It's a threat that's worth taking about as seriously as any random online post.