You can also write to him direct to help his morale - I repeat the guidance for this at the end here.
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Rt Hon Priti Patel MP, Home Secretary
2 Marsham Street
Westminster
London SW1P 4DF
Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Dear Ms Patel
Julian Assange
I write to you in your capacity as Home Secretary and congratulate
you on your recent appointment.
As you know, Mr Julian Assange has spent seven years
effectively in solitary confinement at the Ecuadorian Embassy and has recently been
seized from there and confined in Belmarsh Prison.
You will be very familiar with the details of his case. As
you know, there is widespread disquiet about the British Government’s treatment
of this journalist whose work has been given the Serena Shim Award “for uncompromised
integrity in journalism.” (https://serenashimaward.org/laureates/)
May I most respectfully request that your Department:
- Ensures that Mr Assange’s medical
problems are addressed promptly, appropriately and fully, seeing that the distinguished
journalist John Pilger reports him to be in poor and worsening health (https://consortiumnews.com/2019/08/07/new-fears-for-julian-assange/)
- Ensures that he has access
to papers and sources of information relevant to his defence and that
items illegally seized (as reported in The Guardian here https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/19/us-prosecutors-julian-assange-wikileaks-ecuadorian-embassy
) are returned to him as soon as possible
- Notwithstanding our
country’s desire to maintain the most amicable relations with our friends
in the United States, carefully and sympathetically considers appeals
against his extradition
My reason for contacting you about this is that I feel that our
country’s moral standing in the international world is in danger of being
compromised in this case.
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Julian Assange is being held in the maximum security Belmarsh Prison and appears to be in ill and declining health. Some people are concerned that he is not receiving adequate medical treatment, is being harmed by continuing long periods of solitary confinement and is allowed insufficient time to meet with his legal advisers and others.
Aside from protests, demonstrations and fund-raising, one way to show support is by writing letters - to your political representative, to the current Home Secretary Priti Patel, and to Julian himself (which MUST be done IN THE RIGHT WAY, as shown below).
Some links:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/08/assange-must-not-also-die-in-jail/
https://steemit.com/wikileaks/@elizbethleavos/actions-for-assange-ideas-and-examples-of-how-to-help
https://writejulian.com/
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