Thread by @AndMedh

"The unenthusiastic reception at @hmpbelmarsh cd not deter me, but it certainly contributed 2 my rapidly declining of perception of #Britain as a reliable partner in the area of #HumanRights".

@UN Special Rapporteur on #Torture, @NilsMelzer (first visit to see #Assange) 🧵

@hmpbelmarsh @UN @NilsMelzer @CraigMurrayOrg @johnpilger @medialens @caitoz @Jonathan_K_Cook @ggreenwald @jimmy_dore @johnmcdonnellMP @StellaMoris1 @wikileaks How thoroughly depressing: the #UK's "#Guantanamo" gaol treated @UN official, @NilsMelzer, investigating torture, WORSE than he's experienced in #Ukraine provincial prisons and in #Turkey.

Let that sink in 🤔 Deeply shameful for all UK citizens...

#FreeAssangeNOW

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@hmpbelmarsh @UN @NilsMelzer @CraigMurrayOrg @johnpilger @medialens @caitoz @Jonathan_K_Cook @ggreenwald @jimmy_dore @johnmcdonnellMP @StellaMoris1 @wikileaks @DefendAssange @NYCFreeAssange @AssangeHome @DEAcampaign @DefenseAssange @GeorgeMonbiot @lukeharding1968 @jeremycorbyn @khrafnsson @XR4Assange These screen shots are from a new book "The Trial of Julian #Assange" - A Story of #Persecution by @NilsMelzer published by @VersoBooks

"Those who sleep in a democracy will wake up in a dictatorship" - #OttoGritschneder

@Doctors4Assange @Lawyers4Assange @ChrisLynnHedges

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@hmpbelmarsh @UN @NilsMelzer @CraigMurrayOrg @johnpilger @medialens @caitoz @Jonathan_K_Cook @ggreenwald @jimmy_dore @johnmcdonnellMP @StellaMoris1 @wikileaks @DefendAssange @NYCFreeAssange @AssangeHome @DEAcampaign @DefenseAssange @GeorgeMonbiot @lukeharding1968 @jeremycorbyn @khrafnsson @XR4Assange @VersoBooks @Doctors4Assange @Lawyers4Assange @ChrisLynnHedges @jembendell @Jemima_Khan @SauvonsAssange @freeassange_ch @AssangeLegal @suigenerisjen @Snowden @SirAlanDuncan @RichardBurgon Further detail from @NilsMelzer's 'The Trail of Julian #Assange':

His "squalid appearance had been deliberately staged by the Ecuadorian authorities to make him look repulsive and bizarre"

3 mths b4 arrest "his shaving kit had been taken away by the embassy's security".

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@hmpbelmarsh @UN @NilsMelzer @CraigMurrayOrg @johnpilger @medialens @caitoz @Jonathan_K_Cook @ggreenwald @jimmy_dore @johnmcdonnellMP @StellaMoris1 @wikileaks @DefendAssange @NYCFreeAssange @AssangeHome @DEAcampaign @DefenseAssange @GeorgeMonbiot @lukeharding1968 @jeremycorbyn @khrafnsson @XR4Assange @VersoBooks @Doctors4Assange @Lawyers4Assange @ChrisLynnHedges @jembendell @Jemima_Khan @SauvonsAssange @freeassange_ch @AssangeLegal @suigenerisjen @Snowden @SirAlanDuncan @RichardBurgon @pritipatel @sajidjavid @BorisJohnson @Keir_Starmer @DavidDavisMP @deepa_driver @FCDOGovUK @HRC @UN_HRC 9May2019: @UN Special Rapporteur on Torture visited a UK maximum security prison to meet #Assange:

Only ONE journalist turned up 4 pre-announced, lunchtime statement + Q&A outside @hmpbelmarsh:

He was from @Ruptly, a subsidiary of the Russian @RT_com!

@afshinrattansi

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@hmpbelmarsh @UN @NilsMelzer @CraigMurrayOrg @johnpilger @medialens @caitoz @Jonathan_K_Cook @ggreenwald @jimmy_dore @johnmcdonnellMP @StellaMoris1 @wikileaks @DefendAssange @NYCFreeAssange @AssangeHome @DEAcampaign @DefenseAssange @GeorgeMonbiot @lukeharding1968 @jeremycorbyn @khrafnsson @XR4Assange @VersoBooks @Doctors4Assange @Lawyers4Assange @ChrisLynnHedges @jembendell @Jemima_Khan @SauvonsAssange @freeassange_ch @AssangeLegal @suigenerisjen @Snowden @SirAlanDuncan @RichardBurgon @pritipatel @sajidjavid @BorisJohnson @Keir_Starmer @DavidDavisMP @deepa_driver @FCDOGovUK @HRC @UN_HRC @Ruptly @RT_com @afshinrattansi The prison governor "had 'exceptionally' gone home already at 4pm that day" 🤔

UK's response 2 advance @NilsMelzer's formal request for a meeting after his #Belmarsh visit to see #Assange...

...tells u all u need to know abt @GOVUK commitment 2 #HumanRights!

#FreeAssange

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