UN expert calls for immediate release of Assange after 10 years of arbitrary detention 📂 Archived Message Posted by sashimi on December 9, 2020, 5:56 am 8 December 2020 The UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, today appealed to British authorities to immediately release Julian Assange from prison or to place him under guarded house arrest during US extradition proceedings. He made the urgent call 10 years after Mr. Assange's first arrest on 7 December 2010, amid an outbreak of COVID-19 at Belmarsh prison. Reports say 65 of approximately 160 inmates, including a number in the wing where Mr. Assange is being held, have tested positive. -- https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=26574&LangID=E Message Thread: UN expert calls for immediate release of Assange after 10 years of arbitrary detention - sashimi December 9, 2020, 5:56 am « Index   Searching