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Assange Suffering ‘Psychological Torture,’ Says UN Rights Expert  The Daily Beast

Reuters / Henry Nicholls A day after Julian Assange's lawyers said he was too ill to appear via video link for a court hearing, the United Nations has expressed serious concerns that the WikiLeaks founder is suffering “psychological torture.” Nils Melzer, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture, visited Assange in a high-security London prison earlier this month. “Mr. Assange has been deliberately exposed, for a period of several years, to progressively severe forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the cumulative effects of which can only be described as psychological ...