HughPickens.com [hughpickens.com] writes:
The NYT reports that Julian Assange has suffered "deep pain" in his right shoulder for the last three months but the British government has
refused to let the WikiLeaks founder Assange receive a special "safe-passage" [nytimes.com] so he can receive medical attention outside the country's London embassy where he has been holed up for over three years. "The British government is not offering the terms to make this happen," Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño told journalists. "It's an additional fault in his protection, in the defence of a person's human rights. This is a person who needs to have exams done to understand the situation given it is grave. We don't know what he may have, and they don't want to give an authorization that they can perfectly well give." According to Patiño, Assange
needs magnetic resonance imaging scan to investigate the source of the pain [theguardian.com]. “The reply we have had from Britain is that he can leave whenever he likes for any medical care he might need but the European arrest warrant for Assange is still valid. In other words, he can leave – and we will put him in jail,” Patiño added.
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