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by 93po 2317 days ago
Did you want some sort of torture-detecting-machine where Assange puts in his fingers and the machine beeps loudly with flashing lights?

Doctors have observed, reported, documented, and endorsed that he is being tortured. I don't know what else you could possibly want.
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vkou 2317 days ago
No, I'd like some evidence for one of these two claims:

1. Prisoners in Belmarsh are routinely tortured.

2. Prisoners in Belmarsh are not routinely tortured, but Assange in particular is being singled out for a surprise helping of torture in Belmarsh.

Neither TFA, nor its sources provide any evidence for either of those two things. What they do provide is evidence for the much less incendiary, and less surprising claim of:

1. Assange has not gotten any better since his self-imposed exile.

> Doctors have observed, reported, documented, and endorsed that he is being tortured.

No, they haven't. If you disagree, please cite sources. Ones that don't do the bait-and-switch of pointing at the medical problems he acquired during his pre-incarceration living conditions, and using that to 'prove' the entirely unrelated claim that he is being tortured in Belmarsh.

I strongly doubt that such sources exist, because if they did, publications like TFA would directly, and unambiguously cite them, instead of dancing around the truth.

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93po 2316 days ago
Assange is a political prisoner and clearly his treatment and situation is different from the rest, so a comparison isn't helpful.

The source is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. It's linked in the very top of TFA. Sorry you don't like the truth and are yourself trying to dance around it

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vkou 2316 days ago
Why does it matter if he's a political prisoner, or a shoplifter? He's either being tortured, or he's not.

> The source is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

I have read TFA, I have read its sources, and I see no evidence that points to him currently being tortured, as I have said three times in this thread. Is there a specific passage that you would like to highlight?

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