{"id":369166,"date":"2021-11-01T01:27:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T01:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=122837"},"modified":"2021-11-01T01:27:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T01:27:47","slug":"us-extradition-if-julian-assange-dies-he-would-have-been-tortured-to-death-nils-melzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/01\/us-extradition-if-julian-assange-dies-he-would-have-been-tortured-to-death-nils-melzer\/","title":{"rendered":"US Extradition: \u201cIf Julian Assange Dies, He Would Have Been Tortured to Death!\u201d \u2014 Nils Melzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We speak to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer on the trial of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. He discusses his assessment that Julian Assange has been psychologically tortured by UK authorities, why it has become harder for the UK courts to refuse the US extradition request, the parallels between the video of the murder of George Floyd and Julian Assange\u2019s revelations and what Julian Assange\u2019s persecution means for the average citizen\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"US Extradition: \u2018If Julian Assange Dies, He Would Have Been Tortured To Death!\u2019- Nils Melzer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XDWw-IFH7s4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2021\/10\/us-extradition-if-julian-assange-dies-he-would-have-been-tortured-to-death-nils-melzer\/\">US Extradition: \u201cIf Julian Assange Dies, He Would Have Been Tortured to Death!\u201d \u2014 Nils Melzer<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/\">Dissident Voice<\/a>.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2021\/10\/us-extradition-if-julian-assange-dies-he-would-have-been-tortured-to-death-nils-melzer\/\">Dissident Voice<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We speak to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer on the trial of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. He discusses his assessment that Julian Assange has been psychologically tortured by UK authorities, why it has become harder for the UK courts to refuse the US extradition request, the parallels between the video of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2021\/10\/us-extradition-if-julian-assange-dies-he-would-have-been-tortured-to-death-nils-melzer\/\">US Extradition: \u201cIf Julian Assange Dies, He Would Have Been Tortured to Death!\u201d \u2014 Nils Melzer<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/\">Dissident Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[562,438],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369166"}],"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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369176,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369166\/revisions\/369176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}