I confess that the anguish that has plagued me in recent months returns with force today. It’s by Julian Assange. Let me explain: I am convinced that your team of lawyers we are going to stop this extradition blessed by the government of Boris Johnson. But the news that reaches me from the Belmarsh maximum security prison, where he has been since his expulsion from the Ecuadorian embassy on April 11, 2019, leads me, as well as the magistrate of the London Central Criminal Court, Vanessa Baraitser –which in January 2021 rejected extradition to the United States, although for very different reasons–, to think that something terrible could happen if the decision is carried out. Baraitser argued to reject the demand of the powerful North America that there was a high risk that Assange would choose suicide in that hypothesis. “Mr. Assange’s mental health is in such a state that extradition to the United States would be burdensome for him,” she ruled.
