Assange suffering psychological torture, would face "show trial" in US says UN expert

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Assange suffering psychological torture, would face "show trial" in US says UN expert
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has suffered psychological torture from a defamation campaign and should not be extradited to the United States where he would face a "politicised show trial", a UN human rights investigator said on Friday. Nils Melzer, the UN special rapporteur on torture who ...

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