August 17, 2014 10:25 PM ET
Anti-secrecy activist and Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange speaks during a live video-conference in Mexico city, on August 7, 2014.
Julian Assange has developed a serious heart and lung conditions after two years’ confinement at the Ecuadorian embassy, it has been claimed.
Supporters want the fugitive Wikileaks founder to leave the London building for hospital treatment, but complain he will be arrested if he tries to do so.
They say after being unable to go outside and living in an air-conditioned atmosphere, the Australian anti-secrecy campaigner is suffering from arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat, a chronic cough and high blood pressure.
Lack of sunshine has left him with a Vitamin D deficiency that could lead to asthma, diabetes, weak bones and other conditions, WikiLeaks sources claim.
The 43-year-old, has lived at the embassy in Knightsbridge since Ecuador gave him asylum in 2012. The British government wants to extradite him to Sweden under a European Arrest Warrant issued over sexual assault allegations
Assange says if he is sent to Sweden he will be extradited to the U.S., where he could face 35 years jail for publishing on WikiLeaks classified documents related to US activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks gestures as he speaks to the media and members of the public from a balcony at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Dec. 20, 2012.
Police officers, stationed outside the embassy round the clock in an operation that has so far cost pounds 7million, are under orders to arrest him if he tries to leave. The Ecuadorians have asked for permission to take Assange to hospital in a diplomatic car but have had no reply
A Metropolitan Police spokesman refused to confirm if Assange would face arrest. “We wouldn’t discuss matters like this,” he said.
But a WikiLeaks source told the Mail on Sunday. “He would come round handcuffed to his hospital bed.”
The ex-computer hacker claims the British authorities have confiscated his passport so he could not get far even if he did escape the embassy, adding: “It’s not like I can go into the Australian Consulate to get a replacement”.
“I would want an understanding – formal or informal – that I would be given time to leave the UK before the US puts in an extradition bid. And then I’d go to my children, like any father.”
Commentary by the Ottawa Mens Centre
Julian Assange's is or was wanted in Sweden for Rape, not that its the same legal criminal definition in any other country but Sweden, but Sweden to it's credit has taken a stance on having sex for a purpose without protection.
pregnant has reached epidemic proportions.
It's all encouraged by our Fascist Man Hating government who uses politically correct selectors to choose the most vile examples of humanity as judges where being
a former lawyer for the Children's Aid Societies of Ontario means an almost
anointment process into the Judiciary where they continue to Fabricate Evidence
personally, and turn a deliberate blind eye to
criminal offense by the vilest examples of humanity, CAS Lawyers like
Marguerite Isobel Lewis who personally fabricates evidence in the court room.
Both Julia Assange and Marguerite Isobel Lewis belong in Jail, both are criminals but when it comes to abuse of trust and a danger to society Julian Assange is effectively under his own house arrest.
Not so with the Ottawa "Baby Snatcher" which is the nickname the legal
profession have give to this lawyer from "The Gestapo" and that is the name
lawyers in Ontario give to Ontario's largest Criminal Organization,
The Children's Aid Societies of Ontario.
Ottawa Mens Centre