Assange Faces Time in ‘Britain’s Guantanamo’ After Years in Embassy
- Wikileaks founder being held in high-security Belmarsh Prison
- Facility has been used by the U.K. to hold terrorism suspects
Belmarsh prison in 2004.
Photographer: Graeme Robertson/Getty Images
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Without consistent internet access, medical attention or the ability to go outside, Julian Assange complained that his almost seven-year stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London was uncomfortable. The WikiLeaks founder’s living conditions may now be a lot worse.
After a London court processed Assange, he headed to Belmarsh Prison, according to his friend Vaughan Smith, who was one of the last people to visit the Australian in his room at the embassy before his arrest Thursday.