Ai Weiwei visited Assange: "He is in the prison hospital and his condition is deteriorating"

Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei visited on Tuesday founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, in a prison hospital in London, capital of the United Kingdom, and warned that his state of health was "deteriorating". A renowned artist who criticized the Chinese government for his work, Ai urged the British authorities and other European countries to avoid his extradition to the United States.

The activist visited the Australian, 47, in Belmarsh prison On the eve of the United Kingdom court, a hearing was held next to the inmate's father about Washington's request for extradition. "He is in the prison hospital and his condition is deteriorating," he said on his Twitter account. "He is grateful for the support he has received and the United Kingdom and Europe must defend human rights and end his extradition to the United States, where he faces to 18 counts of indictment and up to 175 years in prison. "

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The government of The United States accuses Assange of conspiring with the exbadista of Inteligencia Chelsea Manning to filter a large amount of clbadified material in 2010. He is accused of endangering some of his sources with the publication in 2010 by WikiLeaks of 250,000 diplomatic cables and some 500,000 confidential documents on the activities of the US Army in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The programmer has been in jail since the police arrested him at the Ecuadorian Embbady in London on April 11, and US authorities will present to the British court on Friday the evidence available to support his request for extradition. "Assange is not doing well," said his lawyer, who fights extradition.

In May, Nils MelzerThe UN Special Rapporteur on torture who visited Assange in prison said that the computer scientist was suffering "intense psychological trauma" and that their human rights could be seriously violated if extradited to the United States He said he was suffering from extreme stress and chronic anxiety.

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A hearing is scheduled for that day in the London Westminster District Court. On this occasion, "US authorities will present evidence in support of their extradition request," Hrafnsson said at a press conference in London. Assange should not be present at the hearing and if so, it will be via videoconferencing, Hrafnsson said., stating that the session will be mainly devoted to procedural matters.

The "first real confrontation" between the American authorities and the defense of the founder of WikiLeaks will take place in a few weeks or even months, he added. Refugee for nearly seven years at the Embbady of Ecuador in London, Assange, 47, was arrested with the endorsement of Quito on April 11 by the British authorities who tried him and sentenced him to 50 weeks in prison for violating the conditions of his provisional release.

The reading of the charge "is very revealing of the nature of the case," said Hrafnsson, who pointed out that the anti-espionage legislation invoked by the US judicial system is an "archaic legal framework" this "has never been used against a publisher and a journalist". This case constitutes a "decisive moment for the preservation of journalism" and "for the freedom of the press", he insisted.

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