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Belmarsh High Security Prison
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
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
Next actions
Check out the next call for actions on https://dontextraditeassange.com/ and https://wiseupaction.info/
Also on theTactics and Actions page.
Write to Julian Assange in Belmarsh
(from https://writejulian.com/)
Mr Julian Assange
Prisoner #: A9379AY
HMP Belmarsh
Western Way
London SE28 0EB
UK
*You must include his prisoner number (#A9379AY) on the envelope!*
*You must include your full name AND address on the back of the envelope!*
Envelopes without his prisoner number and/or your full details will not be delivered.
If you wish for him to reply, include a blank piece of paper with a self-addressed envelope. It must be pre-stamped (UK Stamps only). Do not send loose stamps as they will be rejected. Include 2 UK first class stamps for international. You can buy UK stamps here: https://shop.royalmail.com/postage-and-packaging/first-and-second-class-stamps/6-x-1st-class-stamp-book-change-of-font
Letters sent to and from the prison are checked by prison staff. Do not send letters containing sensitive material, instead please contact Mr. Assange's lawyers for any sensitive matters. You may send paper items only, such as letters, photos and drawings. Please do not attempt to send other items. Postcards are not allowed.
If you receive a reply, you may choose to share it with #WriteJulian unless he has marked the letter as PRIVATE. Please DO NOT publish any letters that he has marked private. Though Belmarsh security checks incoming and outgoing mail they absolutely cannot share or publish his mail, so please be considerate of his wishes.
The lettre received by independent reporter Gordon Dimmack from Julian, asking him to save his life:
Gordon Dimmack reads out the lettre in front of Westminster Magistrate's Court in May 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpOQHZhcWB0
A Letter from Julian Assange to a Supporter: https://angelof-truth.com/2019/08/17/a-letter-from-julian-assange-to-a-supporter 200
Reporting from Belmarsh prison
UN expert and Special Rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer
UN expert visited Julian Assange at the London prison. 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.