Pamela Anderson visited Julian Assange in prison: "We must save your life"

Actress Pamela Anderson visited Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, in prison after nearly a month of arrest, and asked the international community to consider that his friend's life was in danger.

"We must save the life" of Assange, said the Canada-US actress, one of the celebrities who defend the computer scientist. Anderson had also visited him at the Embbady of Ecuador in London, where the Australian had spent nearly seven years under asylum.

"It was very difficult to see Julian herePamela Anderson told reporters before this Belmarsh High Security Prison, located southeast of London.

The woman, who forged an intimate bond with the inmate, said that he "did not deserve" to be imprisoned: "He has never committed violence, he is innocent"

Some time ago, he became his confidant and even brought vegan food to the Ecuadorian Embbady.

"We must continue to fight because it is unfair. He sacrificed so much to make known the truth ", he said, about revelations on issues such as the actions of US troops in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Anderson appeared covered by a cover that seemed to refer to the British revolutionary Oliver Cromwell, as well as to the words "freedom of expression" and "gagged".

American justice wants judge him for "hacking", a charge of up to five years in prison, for helping US intelligence badyst Chelsea Manning obtain a pbadword to access these secret documents. The Australian refuses to be extradited to the United States, where justice could lay new charges.

According to the editor of WikiLeaks, the Icelandic journalist Kristinn Hranfsson, who visited him Tuesday with the actress, "Julian Assange is touched but not sunk. This is an extremely resistant person"

(With information from AFP)