Thread by @Doctors4Assange

Medically, legally, ethically & morally, #Assange should be granted bail tomorrow on following grounds:

1) Pre-existing medical issues as result of:

- arbitrary detention (@UN WGAD);
- solitary confinement;
- prolonged & continuing psychological torture (@NilsMelzer); &

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- apparently politically motivated & deliberate medical neglect;
- on the basis of which @Doctors4Assange raised concerns with UK (@patel4witham) & Aus (@MarisePayne) Govs, directly & in @TheLancet , that “Assange may die in prison”.

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2) Significantly increased risk of death amid #COVIDー19 pandemic to a low-risk prisoner with pre-existing medical issues:

- @WHO guidance on “heightened risk” of CV-19 in prisons, prisoners’ “greater underlying burden of disease & worse health conditions”, & need for...

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... “non-custodial measures” prioritising “alleged offenders & prisoners with low-risk profiles”;
- Prof Richard Coker, of @LSHTM , on “substantial risk of virus spreading at particularly fast rate” in prisons;

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- Andrea Albutt, President @PGA_Prisons, on inevitability of #COVIDー19 Covid-19 related deaths in UK prisons;
- @TheHowardLeague for Penal Reform on need to protect inmates given “unhygienic” prison conditions; &
- @Doctors4Assange letter to Aus gov requesting that ...

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... it protect its medically compromised & therefore vulnerable citizen.

Medically, legally, ethically, & morally, Assange should be granted bail tomorrow.

Politically, will this be enough?

Or, will UK legal system's disproportionate treatment continue?

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All eyes on the UK politico-legal system – the world is watching.

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