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25 November 2019Julian Assange risks dying in prison without urgent medical treatment. The complaint - reports the UK satellite TV website Sky News - an open letter signed by over sixty doctors who claim that the founder of WikiLeaks suffers from physical and psychological disorders, including depression.

Doctors from the United Kingdom, Sri Lanka, Europeans and Australians have expressed "serious concerns" about Assange being able to support a trial, in a letter addressed to the British Interior Minister Priti Patel.

Assange, 48, is detained in the Belmarsh prison, southeast London, awaiting a hearing in February in which he will contest the extradition to the United States, where he has to face 18 counts of charges. Among these, there is the plot to 'hack' a Pentagon 'classified' computer.

The doctors ask Assange to be transferred to a university hospital, where he can undergo checkups and therapies by a health staff.

The letter, published by WikiLeaks, says: "From a medical point of view, on the evidence currently available, we have serious concerns about the suitability of Mr. Assange to face trial in February 2020. It is above all our opinion that Assange needs an urgent medical evaluation by experts of both his physical and psychological state of health. Any indicated medical therapy must be administered in a university hospital (tertiary assistance) adequately equipped and with expert personnel ".