He's being tortured but at least he'll get a fair trial.
1. The claim that Assange is being tortured is being made by a single individual as their personal opinion, and 2. The claims of torture are from actions taken by the governments of the UK and Sweden
The actions of foreign countries have no bearing on if he would get a fair trial in the US; the two ideas are not correlated at all.
2. You seem to be indicating that actions by the UK, Sweden, and Ecuador are happening completely independent of any coordination with or influence from the US government. I don’t believe that you believe that.
No one claims this. Please read the article.
If you believe the claims of the UN Special Rapporteur are without merit, please provide your evidence and/or reasoning.
The only thing the US has done is try to get him extradited to prosecute him. I suppose the argument can be made that he's not afraid of trial, but rather of being incarcerated for his crimes.
Also the second paragraph:
> And third, he is to be extradited to a country that holds people like him in prison conditions that Amnesty International has described as torture.
> [...] could be tortured to death in the United States.
Sorry, but these are just melodrama.
So basically the charges seem to be pretty much predicated on the idea that Assange was a participant in the illegal obtaining of this information.
From the indictment statement [1]:
> The superseding indictment alleges that beginning in late 2009, Assange and WikiLeaks actively solicited United States classified information, including by publishing a list of “Most Wanted Leaks” that sought, among other things, classified documents. Manning responded to Assange’s solicitations by using access granted to her as an intelligence analyst to search for United States classified documents, and provided to Assange and WikiLeaks databases containing approximately 90,000 Afghanistan war-related significant activity reports, 400,000 Iraq war-related significant activities reports, 800 Guantanamo Bay detainee assessment briefs, and 250,000 U.S. Department of State cables.
> The superseding indictment alleges that Manning and Assange engaged in real-time discussions regarding Manning’s transmission of classified records to Assange. The discussions also reflect that Assange actively encouraged Manning to provide more information and agreed to crack a password hash stored on U.S. Department of Defense computers connected to the Secret Internet Protocol Network (SIPRNet), a United States government network used for classified documents and communications. Assange is also charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for agreeing to crack that password hash.
Additionally, the claim that he would not get a for trial in the US is utterly farcical. The claim that you would wind up with a rigged jury is provided without any evidence whatsoever.
[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-julian-assa...