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Moris, a lawyer, linked the lack of response by British officials to the hostility towards WikiLeaks on the part of the US, where authorities were accused recently of plotting to kill or kidnap Assange during the years he was in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

This behaviour by the UK government is unfair, irrational and sinister. A barrister for the US argued that Kopelman had failed to include in his report the fact that Assange had fathered two children with Moris.

They will also point to claims made last month in an investigation by Yahoo News, based on interviews with former US officials, that plans to kidnap or assassinate Assange were considered. The legal war of attrition has taken place against the backdrop of continued support for Assange.

This hearing arises from District Judge Vanessa Baraitser's dismissal of the US government application to extradite Assange — handed down last January. She found that conditions in US prisons created a significant risk that Assange would commit suicide. SAMS is a form of prisoner management that keeps the most serious criminals in solitary confinement, with very limited access to family or lawyers. Given the import that the judge attached to prison conditions, the US had now offered fresh assurances.

Lewis, who spoke for four hours, said that Baraitser had: misinterpreted the Extradition Act; given undue weight to the single psychiatrist who had detected significant suicide risk; and had been swayed by alarmist accounts of the likely length of sentence that Assange might face. The American prosecutors claim he conspired with a whistleblower — army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning — to obtain classified information. They say the publication of this evidence put their assets at risk.

Assurances by the US authorities that they would not put Julian Assange in a maximum-security prison or subject him to abusive special administrative measures, including prolonged solitary confinement, have been discredited by their admission that they reserved the right to reverse those guarantees. Recent bombshell reports that the CIA considered kidnapping or killing Assange while he was holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy have cast even more doubt on the reliability of US promises and further expose the political motivation behind this case.

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