s belmarsh prison that's a high security prison here in the united kingdom and that's all because he skipped bail back in 2012 and this is a video that was actually obtained by artie's video agency ruptly and as you could see in a staunch looks rather may see 8 here in the belmarsh prison his looking rather skeletal in fact his father has said just earlier this week that he's recovering from a dramatic weight loss throughout his time in the belmarsh prison and indeed the ecuadorian embassy not your innocence was actually moved to a medical ward in the belmarsh prison and could not even a pivotal video link for his latest hearing now of course you know saddam was thrown all back into the public eye back in april when he was forcibly removed from london's ecuadorian embassy there in fact he was seeking political asylum and indeed spent nearly 2 and a half 1000 days holed up in that ecuadorian embassy which equates to almost 7 years in solitary almost electric confinement for 7 years in the ecuadorian embassy and it's not just the united states that is seeking julian assange also noted

as belmarsh prison that's a high security prison here in the u.k. and that was for skipping bareback and 2012 now this is a video filmed inside the belmarsh prison by an inmate and it was a tame by artie's video agency ruptly and as you can see he looks somewhat i'm a c 8 and rather skeletal there in the belmarsh prison now last month during a sonorous actually moved to the medical ward there and his father earlier this week said that you're innocent is recovering from a dramatic weight loss during his time in the belmarsh prison and indeed the ecuadorian embassy of course journalists aren't was thrown back into the public eye back in april where he was forcibly removed by british police from the london's ecuadorian embassy where he was actually seeking political asylum and he was holed up there for almost 2 and a half 1000 days which is the sum of almost 7 years in confinement when it isn't just the united states that want your innocence 1 we're also hearing that swedish prosecutors want your innocent for sexual assault allegations made against him

why was ola bini picked up and jailed in ecuador the same day julian assange was put in the belmarsh prisonn london? is a difficult story for me. i have known ola bini for many years. it is still perplexing to myself and to the friends of ola of why he is in prison. we don't know why he is in prison. there is no charge against him. there has been some allegations made about his friendship to is an assange, but if that crime, you and i should be in jail as well. we have also met him. we have understood that meeting him is in itself not a criminal activity. ola bini is a programammer who spspent most of f hisife tryingo creaea tools to help humann rights activisists creatata shid against surveillanceyy govementnt. peoplele who are in n the tech d might know w the progrgrs. these e were developoped by y o. heoved to ecuador partly becaushehe felelwith the government o of rafael cororreat would be aooood placto d do th kindndf work he e s doing, precisely ththe opposite of what people are a alleging of h him t hehe b bke into this, that, or e otherr govovernment mateterials. inin fact, thepposi

person when he's not even well enough to buy a video 10 minutes entrepeneurs to the most it's all belmarsh prison to a maximum security prison where a serving of space steve said to expect. when he went into the ecuadorian embassy back in 2012 and which is. really. about the status of his health what we know is that he was. the medical. that may put him on the world speaks speaks. you know being in a higher security or maximum security prison it's difficult for anyone to 4 spend 7 years confined in the ecuadorian embassy for. medical treatment for the hospital medical treatment and this is meant to be the 2nd hearing on just extradition the official start of it has been moved to around about the 12th of june and we think we've already had a 1st airing earlier this month. consents to being extradited to the us. they're hearing as sirens failed to show up at was about washington's extradition request is sent stateside he could face up to 175 years with over a dozen charges wiki leak has brainchild i hit the headlines in 2010 when it released thousands of u.s. secret documents and logs relating to t

confinement the ecuadorian embassy seeking political asylum he then was moved to transfer to belmarsh prison which is a high security prison here in the united kingdom citing his 51 percent of the greeks who bailed very late u.k. back intrinsics crowd look this is a video that was built inside inmates at the belmarsh prison and taken by off his video agency ruptly and in it you can see that in the songs that someone may sit in sight you get it so he certainly was showing visible signs of a dramatic weight loss when his father did express concerns about his son's health this week and as we know kiran a son was transferred to the. back to the world in that prison no you know why sick right of context it's not just the united states but to the scientists will say swedish prosecutors that want to see you in a song facing trial that allegations of sexual assault something of which suicide then that lead to an icy also believes it sets a pretext to get him extradited to the united states but in terms of to day as i say it is a symbolic and important step in terms of setting a procedural timetable

well julian is orange is currently taking part in a 50 week sentence in belmarsh prison in london that's high security prison he's in prison for skipping bail back in 2012 now as you can see from this video that was obtained by artie's. agency this shows julian assange inside the prison looking coolant and thin we know that there has been concern for his medical stability over the last few weeks without loss of weight and he was transferred to a medical ward within the prison we also know that he was too ill to appear at a hearing recently however we heard from his father john shipton earlier this week who visited son in prison and said that he was on the road to recovery now where did we go how did we get here we'll just remind you back in april british police officers were given the authority to enter into the ecuadorian embassy which had claimed refuge in asylum for almost 7 years he went in there that was after he faced allegations of sexual assault from prosecutors who wanted to extradite him that he has always denied those claims of sexual assault or said. as a pretext to get to sw

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written saying we're going underground as wiki leaks founder julian assange clings to life in belmarsh prison in southeast london coming up in the show the united nations special rapporteur on torture professor niels meltzer condemns british torture of julian assange just the worst case he has seen in 20 years of work with victims of war violence and political persecution and the biggest betrayal in that in american history we ask the man who 1st gave julian assange just signed a former ecuadorian president rafael correa what case means for illegal u.s. backed regime change in latin america all the more coming up in today's going on the ground but 1st straight to our top story which it's no exaggeration to say impinges on the ability to tell truth all around the world in every country in the world we can leaks expose lies and corruption about the powerful and this before outgoing u.k. minority government leader theresa may welcome the capture of the founder of wiki leaks julian assange i'm sure that the whole house will welcome the news this morning that the metropolitan police have arrested

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mention returns here we're going underground as wiki leaks founder julian assange clings to life in belmarsh prison in southeast london coming up with a show the united nations special on torture professor condemns british torture of julian assange just the worst case in 20 years of work with victims of war violence and political persecution and the biggest betrayal enough of american history we'll ask the man who 1st gave. former ecuadorian president rafael correa wants as a. case means for a legal u.s. backed regime change in latin america although some more coming up in today's going on the ground but 1st straight to our top story which it's no exaggeration to say impinges on the ability to tell truth all around the world in every country in the world we can leaks expose lies and corruption about the powerful and this before outgoing u.k. minority government leader theresa may welcome the capture of the founder of wiki leaks julian assange i'm sure that the whole house will welcome the news this morning that the metropolitan police have arrested julian assange the foreign secretary and politicia

house outside belmarsh prison that's an extradition hearing then it's going to also go to the government as well and effectively you could have a situation where the home secretary would be charged with making that final call now does britain want that on its legacy that's a historic line to cross not only for the united states to charge a publisher a journalist on the espionage act but for the british government to hand over a journalist an award winning journalist to the united states where the u.n. and other bodies have ruled pretty clearly that he will not get a fair trial it's a highly politicized case but i think a lot of people believe that this this is going to be one this this battle for free press and free speech for julius on just life will be also won in the public of the spear of public opinion and so building awareness is absolutely essential this event to raise awareness for juvenile songs and also the ticket sales for this event going to woods his defense fees we know that there are going to be individuals such as damon $50.00 in westwood speaking tonight and many others

is high security belmarsh prison for jumping bail in 2012 and a pro he was forcibly removed by british police from the ecuadorian embassy in london after quito ended his 7 year asylum if convicted in the us he could be sentenced up to 175 years behind bars and while gina sanjaya waits his fate his former protector ecuador is refusing to extradite an alleged american fraudster to the u.s. ecuadorian president lanham rayno has personally blocked proceedings citing national sovereignty reasons humanitarian concerns and also international law we asked wiki leaks activist clark stoically why the 2 cases are being treated so differently. i don't want double standards very hypocrite always very showy of the morals and ethics of these governments you know the message that wiki leaks has been publishing has been the truth showing that these major or. government organizations are committing fraud or committing war crimes and so forth . and you know then the messenger is going to be the one that keeps going you know walk away the fact that america is it's always with a 100 percent factual evidenc

by inmates at the belmarsh prison on the same. video. unit so i think someone is going to enormous and maybe a surprise. l house at the moment he started does look like not in that video footage wilson only was present medical ward and his father but i cannot see this week about. how now on top of all of this is not just a nice one it will they want to fight for the allegations of sexual assault something of which sounds very much. a free for his extradition to the united states but i want to say protesters are really upset about this extradition request credibly worried about the freedom of expression and they believe that to say this really does seem to feel like the poll is rolling towards extradition and i say oh . ok thank you ashanti that was shoddy and which daschle outside westminster my school there in london where at the extradition hearing has just got on the way concerning shooting the son. you want to know if he will back with more stories for you in a couple minutes. what is it going to coin is magic internet the new type o

50 week sentence for skipping fell in 20 trials now this is actually a video from inside that belmarsh prison that was obtained by our right for me which is the video agency and in this footage you can see your innocence looking someone may see it didn't get it so it's known that he's not a dramatic amount of weight not something that his father has voiced concerns of earlier this week and we know that he was also sent to the medical ward in a prison that but on top of all of this is not just the united states wants to decide he's also wanted for swedish prosecutors for allegations of sexual assault something of course good asuncion self-image need to know i think he also believes it's a pretext to extradite him to the united states now i am actually joined now by somebody who was inside that courtroom it's a leading journalist patrick headings and he's also the editor in chief of 20. a full century why a project thank you very much for joining us can you just bring us up to speed about what happened in the courtroom today mainly today this was a procedural hearing so nothing was decided or s

coup tearing later on this week of course julian assange is serving a 50 week prison sentence in belmarsh prison in london after he failed to appear full of bail hearing around 7 years ago well i'm out in the event tonight where organizes a trying to keep julian assange was here in the u.k. hoping to fight off that extradition request and also to keep julian assault case high profile in the media joining me is one of the guests this evening it's patrick henningsen from 21st century wife dot com patrick thank you so much for joining us what do you hope to achieve by this event tonight the main point of this event is is to raise public awareness and so activists journalists politicians political public figures who've been brought together to sort of speak on behalf of this issue in this is not just a single issue this is about obviously julie sanji individual but it's about freedom of the press freedom of speech it's about one of the fundamental pillars of our democracy in the west how much we do when steve think these events can actually make given that we now have these formal extradition charge