Julian Assange’s brother, Gabriel Sipton, said in New York on Monday that he feared that the founder of the WikiLeaks site would die during a court battle to prevent his extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States.
Mr. Sipton, a film producer, took part in a demonstration in front of the UK consulate in Manhattan, along with about thirty other people, including American actress Susan Sarandon and British musician-co-founder of the legendary band Pink Floyd – Roger Waters.
Gabriel Sipton said he was “very worried about what is hanging over Julian’s head and increasing the pressure” on him.
“We live in fear that he will not be able to bear it, that he will die during the process,” which continues in the courts, he added, speaking to Agence France-Presse.
This is not the first time Mr. Sipton has expressed concern about his 50-year-old brother’s health. Julian Assange’s fiancée, Stella Morris, also revealed to the British newspaper Mail on Sunday that the founder of WikiLeaks suffered a “small stroke” in prison at the end of October (25051174).
Mr Assange is being held in a high-security prison near London following his arrest by British police in April 2019, after spending seven years in solitary confinement at the Ecuadorian embassy, ​​where he had been held on restrictive conditions.
For his brother, Julian Assange “is no longer the man he was when it all started”, yet “he remains strong and a fighter”.
The relatives and supporters of the founder of WikiLeaks expressed themselves after the major victory that the American authorities claimed on Friday in the court battle to secure his extradition, as the court of appeals annulled the first instance decision that excluded it (25041259).
However, Julian Assange intends to appeal to the Supreme Court.
U.S. authorities want to prosecute him for bringing to light more than 700,000 classified and top-secret US military and diplomatic documents since 2010, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Australian, who is being prosecuted by the US court mainly for espionage, risks being sentenced to 175 years if he is convicted. The case, his supporters say, is a very serious attack on the press.
For the artist Roger Waters, “our lives, our freedom (…), democracy (…) depend entirely on what will happen to Julian Assange”, while according to Susan Sarandon, “everything And if you think about Julian Assange, this case is about freedom of information and journalism. “
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