Nils Melzer, a Geneva-based former Red Cross lawyer and human rights expert who is now the UN special rapporteur on torture, spent four hours with Assange in Belmarsh in early May, assessing his psychological and mental state along with two medical specialists.

In a currently confidential report submitted to the British government on Monday, along with letters to the US, Swedish and Ecuadorian governments, Melzer concluded Assange "shows all the symptoms of someone exposed to prolonged psychological ill-treatment".

"The evidence is overwhelming and clear," Melzer said. "Mr Assange has been deliberately exposed, for a period of several years, to progressively severe forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the cumulative effects of which can only be described as psychological torture."

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"I tell all Mexicans to have faith, we will overcome this attitude of the US government, they will make rectifications because the Mexican people do not deserve to be treated in the way being attempted", Lopez Obrador noted.

The US tariffs "won't stop" the ratification of the North American trade deal, the Mexican president stated.

"This does not stop the process that began in order to ratify the treaty. We are going to move forward", Lopez Obrador said.

The president insisted that Mexico is working to stem the flow, saying "we are doing our job, without violating human rights".

​The statement comes after Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that an official Mexican delegation, headed by Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, had left for the United States to settle the issue of the planned US trade tariffs.

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Jailed Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange is reportedly "too ill" to even speak at a scheduled extradition hearing today. He is said to be "gravely ill" and even near death. If Assange is worth more dead than alive to the governments he has embarrassed by publishing the truth about their crimes, are they trying to make his death happen? Or will he be slowly killed by a 170 year prison sentence?

"Nothing changes from the Mueller Report," Trump tweeted on Wednesday. "There was insufficient evidence and therefore, in our Country, a person is innocent. The case is closed! Thank you."

Trump's tweet came after Mueller made his first public statement since releasing his final report almost two months ago. The Special Counsel formally closed his office, and announced he would make no further statements on the investigation. The written report, he said, "speaks for itself."

Mueller's final report found no evidence that Trump colluded with Russia in the runup to the 2016 election, and insufficient evidence that the president then obstructed his investigation. Mueller did, however, state that he had not determined that obstruction did not take place, but declined to charge the president with a crime, as that move would be "unconstitutional."

Congressional Democrats have accused Attorney General William Barr of making unnecessary redactions to the 400-page report in an effort to protect Trump. Mueller dismissed these accusations on Wednesday, saying Barr has already "made the report on our investigation largely public."

Mueller also said that he would give no testimony to Congress "beyond that which is already public."

Previously, House Judiciary Committee chair Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-New York) had expressed a desire to question Mueller about the report, saying last week that the special counsel would "probably" testify in private to the committee, and earlier threatening to subpoena Mueller if necessary.

Trump has accused Nadler and the 23 other Democrats on the committee of trying to hold a "do over" of the Mueller investigation, and has repeatedly stated that the report found "no collusion" and "no obstruction."

Meanwhile, some Democrats have taken Mueller's insistence on not prosecuting Trump as a cue to bring their own charges, including impeachment proceedings, against the president.

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