Julian Assange is “in very bad shape” before the hearing on his extradition to the US.

The classmate of Julian Assange, Stella Moris, affirmed this Monday that the founder of WikiLeaks He is “in very bad shape” before the review, on Wednesday, by the British courts of the US appeal against the rejection of his extradition.

“Last Saturday I saw Julian in Belmarsh Prison ”, near London, he indicated Stella Moris during a press conference, “He looked very bad”.

“We hope that it is already the end” of all this, he pointed out Morris, lawyer of Assange, who has become his partner, before the hearing scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.

“Julian it would not survive an extradition, is the conclusion of the magistrate “, continued Morris, considering the possibility of reversing the decision not to make it “terrifying”.

In January, British judge Vanessa Baraitser rejected the request for the extradition of Assange, tried by the American justice for a massive leak of documents, before the possibility of committing suicide. In the United States, he faces a sentence of 175 years in prison, in a case described by his defenders as political and an attack on freedom of expression.

The director of international campaigns for the NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Rebecca Vincent, stressed that the current US president, Joe Biden, lost the opportunity to “distance himself from his predecessors” and requested, as did all the founder’s supporters of WikiLeaks, that the indictment against Julian Assange.

The editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, Kristinn Hrafnsson, considered “unthinkable that the London High Court reaches any other conclusion than to confirm” the denial of extradition.

In this appeal, Washington in particular calls into question the reliability of an expert who testified in favor of Assange regarding the fragility of his current mental health.

Indeed, the psychiatrist Michael Kopelman acknowledged that he had deceived justice by “hiding” the fact that his client became a father during his confinement at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

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