Due to the extreme stress of fighting extradition to the US from the UK’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison, Julian Assange has suffered a ministroke, his fiancee Stella Moris has informed.
According to Moris’ statement, who is the mother of his two children, WikiLeaks co-founder was diagnosed with a transient ischemic attack (TIA) after his video link appearance for the High Court appeal on October 27.
She noted that Assange is struggling, stressing her fears that this ministroke could be followed by a more major attack and that it influences his ability to survive the longer this already long legal battle, which is extremely stressful mentally, goes on.
Assange had an MRI scan has since he was diagnosed with TIA, which requires medical attention and is often seen as a warning sign of a possible major stroke in the future, and is now taking anti-stroke medication.
Moris warned that Assange is now going through what every animal trapped in cages in a zoo goes through, which usually cuts their life short.
Her words echoed in a way the words by the UN special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melze, that Assange showed all the symptoms typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture when his team visited him in Belmarsh.
In her statement to the Daily Mail Online, Moris underscored that the US government, which, according to her, plotted to kill Assange and have found a way to do so – got the UK state to play the role of executioner, liking her fiance’s case to the Jamal Khashoggi murder, only now playing out in London.
Saudi-born Washington Post columnist was assassinated in 2018 in Istanbul after entering the Saudi consulate although Riyadh later claimed that the killing was not state-sanctioned.
Meanwhile, a group of physicians – Doctors for Assange – called again on the UK government to release Assange from custody underscoring the serious jeopardy that both his health and the health of the British democracy, which depends on a free press and judicial integrity, are.
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