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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange feared he was becoming “a hallucinating puddle on the floor” while held in solitary confinement, a psychiatrist told his extradition hearing yesterday.
Dr Nigel Blackwood also said that Mr Assange’s likely conditions of incarceration in the US “would impact on his mood state.”
He told the Old Bailey in London that he believed Mr Assange had a “recurrent depressive disorder” and said: “I think there is some risk of suicide but that risk has to be carefully managed at Belmarsh prison.
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
1943-2025: How one man’s unfinished work reveals the lethal lie of ‘colour-blind’ medicine
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Mental health fears push Peers to change law on IPP torture sentences, reports Charley Allan