Assange’s health is deteriorated after five years and a half, said foreign minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa.
Ecuador's foreign minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa affirmed Wednesday that Julian Assange's health is deteriorated after five years and half of being holed up in the Andean country's embassy in London.
"His health is really deteriorated which is what occurs to a person who has been holed up for five years and a half in a place the size of an office which is not appropriate to have a normal life," said Espinosa without further detail.
Talking to media, the Ecuadorian official added that the 46-year-old Australian journalist is living in a very difficult and concerning situation and ratified that his government will continue to offer him protection.
Assange asked Ecuador for asylum in 2012 and in spite of the country's diplomatic efforts, the case has not been solved.
Ecuador has asked London for a safe conduct in order for Assange to be able to travel to the Andean country which has not been positively accepted.
President Lenin Moreno, who took office in May 2017, has ratified that his government will continue to offer him protection but has asked him not to make remarks about other countries' internal affairs.
Comment: Meanwhile US authorities continue to threaten Assange for publishing Clinton's emails. As the
Daily Mail reported in December 2017, this includes 'three congressional probes and a federal criminal inquiry'. Assange's lawyer is
still waiting for Mueller to call:
Pollack is a criminal defense lawyer at Miller and Chavalier and Assange's personal attorney for criminal matters in the United States-he has no direct association with WikiLeaks. For years he has tried to learn what actions, if any, the US government intends to take toward his client following WikiLeaks' 2010 release of more than 250,000 classified diplomatic and military cables passed to the organization by Chelsea Manning.
"It continues to be status quo. The Department of Justice will not engage with me. They will not tell me what they're doing, where are they are in the process, any information whatsoever, and have always told me if and when they get to the point where there's something to discuss, they know where to find me," Pollack says. "My phone has not been ringing."
Holed up in a room with the American empire breathing down one's neck would be bad for anyone's health. However, it's worth remembering what Wikileaks tweeted in January of 2017:
Comment: Meanwhile US authorities continue to threaten Assange for publishing Clinton's emails. As the Daily Mail reported in December 2017, this includes 'three congressional probes and a federal criminal inquiry'. Assange's lawyer is still waiting for Mueller to call: Holed up in a room with the American empire breathing down one's neck would be bad for anyone's health. However, it's worth remembering what Wikileaks tweeted in January of 2017: