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Julian Assange’s brother fears he will see him die during court battle

His brother Julian Assange, The Gabriel Sipton, said on Monday (13/12) at New York that he is afraid that the founder of the site WikiLeaks will die during the court battle to prevent his extradition from United Kingdom at USA.

Mr. Sipton, film producer, took part in a demonstration in front of his consulate UK in the Manhattan, along with about thirty other people, among them the American actress Susan Charadon and the British musician-co-founder of the legendary band Pink Floyd – Roger Waters.

THE Gabriel Sipton he said “very worried about what is hanging over his head Julian and increases the pressure “for him.

“We live in fear that he will not be able to bear it, that he will die during the process,” which continues in the courts, he added, speaking to French Agency.

This is not the first time that Mr. Sipton expresses concern over the health condition of his 50-year-old brother. Besides, his fiancée Julian Assange, the Stella Morris, revealed in the British newspaper Mail on Sunday that its founder WikiLeaks suffered a “minor stroke” in prison in late October.

Mr. Assange is being held in a high security prison near London after his arrest by British police in April 2019, after spending seven years locked up at his embassy Equatorial, where he had taken refuge while free under restrictive conditions.

For his brother, o Julian Assange “He is no longer the man he was when it all started,” he nevertheless “remains strong and a fighter.”

The relatives and supporters of its founder WikiLeaks expressed after the major victory that the authorities claimed on Friday USA in court battle to secure his extradition, as the appellate court annulled the first-instance decision that ruled it out.

However Julian Assange intends to resort to Supreme Court.

The principles of USA want to prosecute him for bringing to light, since 2010, more than 700,000 confidential and top-secret documents on US military and diplomatic activities, Iraq and to Afghanistan.

THE Australian, who is being prosecuted by the US court mainly for espionage, runs the risk of being sentenced to 175 years if convicted. The case, his supporters say, is a very serious attack on the press.

For the artist Roger Waters“Our lives, our freedom (…), our democracy (…) depend entirely on what happens in Julian Assange», While according to Susan Charadon, “Whatever you think of him Julian Assange“This case concerns freedom of information and journalism.”

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