Are they hoping he will die? Some will be, of course, But the point is that this long painful incarceration is designed to break him even if eventually he is not extradited and released. This has been the plan all along, and hence the long long delays between judicial reviews and court cases. His lawyers must apply to the court now for his release on bail or at the minimum to a low - risk prison where he has facilities and company. Have his lawyers done this?
I mean this man has been in solitary confinement now five years and never been convicted of a single criminal act, just one contempt of court case. It is appalling, but Tariq, it has all been quite deliberate.

C'est tout pour discourager les autres.