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    Wikileaks founder accused of rape

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May 30, 2019 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was transferred to the hospital ward of Belmarsh Penitentiary, UK, where he has been held since last month.

This was announced by the same organization, which in a statement expressed "serious concern" about his health conditions.

Assange, 47, is serving a 50-week prison sentence in the UK for breaking his parole in 2012 and taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy, ​​where he remained until last April, to avoid extradition to Sweden. , where he was wanted for rape.



"Assange's health conditions had already deteriorated considerably after seven years spent in the Ecuadorian embassy, ​​in conditions incompatible with basic human rights - the statement underlines -. During the seven weeks in Belmarsh, his health continued to deteriorate and he lost a lot of weight. The decision of the prison authorities to transfer him to the hospital ward says it all. "



The extradition hearing in the United States

Just today Assange was supposed to intervene by videoconference at the hearing on the extradition request presented by the United States, which challenged him 17 charges, including the violation of the espionage law for the publication of secret diplomatic and military documents in 2010.



Ecuador: no to bail for Ola Bini

The justice of Ecuador yesterday rejected in Quito a bail request for Ola Bini, a Swedish computer expert close to the founder of Wikileaks arrested on 11 April when he was about to leave the Ecuadorian capital for Japan.

This was reported by the Metro newspaper.

The defense, the newspaper recalls in its online edition, had asked for Bini's release pending trial in which he will have to answer for the charge of attacking the Ecuadorian computer system.

Judge Yadira Proaño, however, rejected the defendants' request, stressing that the accused, arrested on the same day that Ecuador ended Assange's asylum in its embassy in London, did not show "willingness to collaborate with the investigation in progress ".