{"id":1508736,"date":"2024-02-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/?p=461277"},"modified":"2024-02-20T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T11:00:00","slug":"life-inside-the-brutal-u-s-prison-that-awaits-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/20\/life-inside-the-brutal-u-s-prison-that-awaits-julian-assange\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Inside the Brutal U.S. Prison That Awaits Julian Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- BLOCK(acast)[0](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22ACAST%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Afalse%7D)(%7B%22id%22%3A%22life-inside-the-brutal-us-prison-that-awaits-julian-assange%22%2C%22podcast%22%3A%22deconstructed%22%2C%22subscribe%22%3Atrue%7D) -->\n<div class=\"acast-player\">\n  <iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/deconstructed\/life-inside-the-brutal-us-prison-that-awaits-julian-assange?accentColor=111111&#038;bgColor=f5f6f7&%23038;logo=false\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"acast-player__embed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<!-- END-BLOCK(acast)[0] -->\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-underline\">Starting Tuesday,<\/span> a U.K. court will review Julian Assange\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/search\/julian%20assange\/\"> appeal against extradition<\/a> to the United States. At the center of the extradition controversy is concern that Assange will be tortured and put in solitary confinement in what\u2019s known as a CMU \u2014 communications management unit&nbsp;\u2014 in federal prison. This week on Deconstructed, Ryan Grim is joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/staff\/martin-gottesfeld\/\">Martin Gottesfeld<\/a>, a human rights activist who was formerly imprisoned in two of the nation\u2019s CMUs. Gottesfeld shares his experience incarcerated in CMU facilities, where his access to visitors including his wife were severely restricted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Transcript coming soon. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/02\/20\/deconstructed-julian-assange-prison-martin-gottesfeld\/\">Life Inside the Brutal U.S. Prison That Awaits Julian Assange<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/02\/20\/deconstructed-julian-assange-prison-martin-gottesfeld\/\">The Intercept<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over two days this week, a U.K. court will hear Julian Assange\u2019s appeal against extradition to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/02\/20\/deconstructed-julian-assange-prison-martin-gottesfeld\/\">Life Inside the Brutal U.S. Prison That Awaits Julian Assange<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516047,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508736\/revisions\/1516047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}