BBC:
The UN’s special rapporteur on torture said that Assange had been subjected to sustained collective persecution – including threatening statements and incitement to violence against him.
„I’ve worked in many areas of war in my life, in situations of violence, and I’ve talked to victims of persecution around the world and I’ve seen very serious atrocities,“ Mr Melzer told the BBC.
„But [what] I have never seen is that a single person has been deliberately isolated and, I would say, persecuted – not prosecuted, but persecuted – by several democratic states in a concerted effort to eventually break his will.“
He added that he believes Assange „has a very strong case, and a very reasonable fear, that if he gets extradited to the Unites States he has no chance to get a fair trial with the level of public and official prejudice that exists there for him“.
