Documents provided exclusively to The Grayzone detail Canberra’s abandonment of Julian Assange, an Australian citizen, and provide shocking details of his prison suffering by Kit Klarenberg Part 4 - Australia’s DFAT denies any role in “progressively severe abuse” of Assange On May 30th that year, WikiLeaks’ made the shock announcement that Julian had been moved to Belmarsh’s medical ward, expressing “ grave concerns ” about the state of his health. Almost immediately, DFAT’s Global Watch Office fired off an internal email drawing attention to the post. The following day, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Nils Melzer proclaimed “ the collective persecution of Julian Assange must end here and now! ” The international legal veteran added that, “ in 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution, ” he had “ never seen a group of democratic states ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonize and ...