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Podcast: 4PR - Voice of the People
Episode: Julian's Legacy
Description: Interview with Ciaron O'Reilly about Julian Assange's extradition trial.
Nils Melzer, the UN Rapporteur on Torture has described the treatment of Julian Assange by the governments of the UK, the US and Sweden as torture. Nonetheless, Melzer has been ignored by these governments and the Australian government too.
Much of the past week at Assange’s extradition hearing in the Old Bailey has been concerned with the deteriorating state of Assange’s mental health, following his seven-and-a-half years forced detention in the Ecuadorian Embassy and the further year-and-a-half confinement in Belmarsh Prison and the further deterioration his mental health would suff...