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    A toxic 'victory'? Archived Message

    Posted by margo on January 26, 2020, 10:48 am, in reply to "Belmarsh. Craig Murray"

    On the face of it, a good thing. In the bigger scheme, though, a poison 'victory'?

    The 100+ doctors who form Doctors For Assange (@doctors4assange) have been calling for Assange to be released from prison into an adequate hospital in order for long-overdue MRI scans, dentalwork and possibly psychiatric care (given Belmarsh 'sedates' him with goodness-knows-what).

    So a FULL EXIT from the prison - rather than a cell shift - is what doctors (and international law experts like Prof Nils Melzer) want.
    Melzer says he examined every document in this case ... and the conclusion he draws from this forensic is that "there is no legal basis" for incarceration, at all.
    While Assange's living conditions are somewhat eased in jail, he is still kept incommunicado and held arbitrarily and illegally - in defiance of Articles 3, 7 and the international asylum principle of non-refoulement.
    Does his new accommodation come with what's been criminally denied him thus far: proper medical care, a working computer, adequate access to lawyers?

    While it's worth celebrating that Assange can leave a single cell in a medical ward and mingle with the general population in another section, he's not been released into a genteel chatting club. He'll be mingling with this supermax's toughest criminals, some of whom are members of gangs and criminal cartels. ('Spice' drug flows freely there,as an ITV documentary on Belmarsh revealed this January, which shows levels of corruption and criminal influence in a supposedly 'secure' space).
    Could a gang-member carry out 'an incident' on Assange if promised payment by a cartel?
    Could Belmarsh use the prisoners' petition as plausible deniability for why he was moved into a potentially far more dangerous situation?

    Three prisoners have died in Belmarsh in the past year, most recently Liridon Saliuka (who had the same status as Assange, ie. a remand prisoner).
    Saliuka was found dead in his cell after prisoners say they witnessed 'an altercation': Belmarsh insists it was suicide and delays post-mortem, much to his family's distress:
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    Belmarsh under investigation after prisoner found dead

    A prisoner on remand was found dead in his cell at HMP Belmarsh. Liridon Saliuka, 29, was the third prisoner to have died at the high-security prison within the past year. The tragedy followed a dispute over whether he should have been classified as disabled.

    Saliuka was found unresponsive in his cell in the early evening of January 2, 2020. The Prisons and Ombudsman is currently investigating the death with the authorities treating it as self-inflicted. His family disagree with this assessment and are calling for a thorough investigation whilst also condemning the delays to Saliuka’s postmortem..../continues https://www.thejusticegap.com/belmarsh-under-investigation-after-prisoner-found-dead/


    Perhaps I am overly negative, but remember how many powerful Americans issued actually issued death threats against him (Clinton's "can't we just drone the guy" etc, etc).
    Sadly, in terms of their own logic, it would probably suit both US and UK - in terms of face-saving and avoiding a free Assange speaking out - if Assange died, sooner rather than later? US would rather avoid him dying on US soil - and UK might be 'saddened' if some nasty radical Muslim prisoner, crazed on Spice, took Assange out, in his new surroundings.
    Why did Belmarsh allow this documentary filmed and put out this January, that reinforces notion of prison awash in gangs and drugs?
    Why does Belmarsh bow to prisoners' demands iro Assange - when by all accounts it bows to no-one and is run by one of UK's toughest prisoner governors (R. Davis)? Davis appeared at Belmarsh after disappearing from a previous prison, where plenty suicides and deaths occurred on his watch.

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    Governor Rob Davis disappears from Woodhill Jail as latest death victim is named

    "The tragedy brings the sad toll up to nine people who have died at Woodhill over the past 12 months.
    It coincides with governor Rob Davis mysteriously disappearing from the prison...    ./ continues

    https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/crime/governor-rob-davis-disappears-woodhill-jail-latest-death-victim-named-1169210

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