======Belmarsh High Security Prison======

[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Belmarsh|HMP Belmarsh]]

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HMP Belmarsh
Western Way
London SE28 0EB
UK

Location: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.4957&mlon=0.0931#map=15/51.4957/0.0931

=====Assange in Belmarsh=====

==== Protest actions outside Belmarsh prison ====

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=== Behind These Prison Walls - David Rovics ===

Song recorded in front of Belmarsh: https://video.emergeheart.info/videos/watch/9a8734a8-a083-4db5-bae0-478a42040a88

=== Cleaning Woman - Cleaning Belmarsh ===

Cleaning Woman, performance artist, cleaning the walls of the Belmarsh prison: https://video.emergeheart.info/videos/watch/5909884a-8f09-4ac9-a8d7-4beb9aa5dfdd

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=== Next actions ===

Check out the next call for actions on [[https://dontextraditeassange.com/]] and [[https://wiseupaction.info/]]\\
Also on the [[actions_and_exhibitions|Tactics and Actions]] page.

==== Write to Julian ====

Here's how: [[Write to Julian in Belmarsh]]


==== Reporting from Belmarsh prison ====
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=== UN expert and Special Rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer ===

UN expert visited Julian Assange at the London prison. [[https://challengepower.info/nils_melzer|Prof. Nils Melzer]] was accompanied during his prison visit on 9 May by two medical experts specialised in examining potential victims of torture and other ill-treatment.  

The team were able to speak with Assange in confidence and to conduct a thorough medical assessment.

“It was obvious that Mr. Assange’s health has been seriously affected by the extremely hostile and arbitrary environment he has been exposed to for many years,” the expert said. “Most importantly, in addition to physical ailments, Mr. Assange showed all symptoms typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture, including extreme stress, chronic anxiety and intense psychological trauma.

“The evidence is overwhelming and clear,” the expert said. “Mr. Assange has been deliberately exposed, for a period of several years, to progressively severe forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the cumulative effects of which can only be described as psychological torture.

From [[https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24665]]

=== Journalist John Pilger === 

Visiting Britain's political prisoner

[[https://consortiumnews.com/2019/11/29/john-pilger-visiting-britains-political-prisoner/]]


==== More about Belmarsh ====

=== Britain's Guantanamo bay ? ===

In the early 2000 years, post 9/11, Belmarsh prison held terrorist suspects in extreme conditions with little regard to due process of the law, which is why it then got called Britain's Guantanamo bay. 

[[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3714864.stm]]