There's an article on zh https://www.zerohedge.com/political/physically-mentally-frail-assange-suffers-vicious-travesty-justice-latest-court
Until yesterday I had always been quietly sceptical of those who claimed that Julian’s treatment amounted to torture – even of Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture – and sceptical of those who suggested he may be subject to debilitating drug treatments. But having attended the trials in Uzbekistan of several victims of extreme torture, and having worked with survivors from Sierra Leone and elsewhere, I can tell you that yesterday changed my mind entirely and Julian exhibited exactly the symptoms of a torture victim brought blinking into the light, particularly in terms of disorientation, confusion, and the real struggle to assert free will through the fog of learned helplessness.
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Sums it up pretty much, on top of that the whole legal process seems as rigged as... Pretty much anything beyond a certain political threshold
Nobody's going to give a fuck, pay attention look; What did assange do for... Us?
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Crickets
People can barely tell what's the whole story "it's mass surveillance stuff... I think... And rape also, they said he raped something somwehre in a snow country"
That's pretty much all what people know or think they know, and that's exactly how much they are going to care
Why would it be otherwise?
Nothing happens without reason, and there's no reason anything new happen, except that he'll rot in jail forever, and die eventually at some point, after turning batshit insane, and nobody will see any of it, it's going to be like it never happened
They'll jjust remember that, somewhere, some people read their mails
That's it, end of story, thank you for your contribution
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