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More than 300 doctors from around the world have written to the deputy prime minister Barnaby Joycand today he urges you to search Julian Assange immediate release from prison in the UK for medical reasons.
The letter cites concern over Assange’s apparent mini-stroke, warning that it may be “the tip of a medical iceberg”:
In fact, its symptoms suggest it. Therefore, it is imperative that Assange be released from prison, where his health will continue to deteriorate and where his complex medical needs cannot be met..
Perhaps your colleagues dismissed our concerns earlier as hyperbolic. Are not. On the subject of cardiovascular disease, we have been shown to be right. We do not want to be proven correct on the issue of Mr. Assange’s survival..
We implore you, as Deputy Prime Minister, to intervene with the UK government to seek the immediate release of Mr Assange on urgent medical grounds. We reiterate that you are an innocent Australian citizen in the eyes of the law, and guilty and charged with nothing in the UK..
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