Nils Melzer

The Trial of Julian Assange by Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, uncovers a systematic campaign to persecute Assange. He reveals that Assange has faced grave and systematic due process violations, judicial bias, collusion, and manipulated evidence. He has been the victim of constant surveillance, defamation, and threats. Melzer also gathered consolidated medical evidence proving that the prisoner...

In July 2010, Wikileaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence of war crimes and torture. In the aftermath, Julian Assange, the founder and spokesman of Wikileaks, found himself at the centre of a media storm, accused of hacking and later sexual assault. He spent the next seven years in asylum...