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by crunchatized 2306 days ago
Rohrabacher visited Assange in August 2017, when this offer supposedly took place. [1]

Assange wasn't placed in solitary confinement, a form of torture, until 2019, after he was arrested by UK authorities.

Of course in 2017, he was being arbitrarily detained, [2] which while not torture, was a violation of his human rights, and had been ongoing since the Obama administration with no end in sight.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170817205448/https://rohrabach...

[2] https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...