I disagree with what you're saying for a few reasons:

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.

1. The article covers many details. What evidence informs your personal opinion that the observations and judgement of the UN Special Rappoeteur on Torture should be discounted?

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.

who's being tortured? assange? is this a joke?

No, it’s very serious. The article covers many serious issues with the case. Please read it.

Claiming you’re being tortured because you’re going to have to face trial for crimes is like claiming to be tortured by people who post opinions that disagree. Absurd on its face.

> Claiming you’re being tortured because you’re going to have to face trial

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.

> Julian Assange has been intentionally psychologically tortured by Sweden, Britain, Ecuador and the U.S.

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.