Docs: Jail could kill Assange

More than 60 doctors from around the world warned in an open letter that Julian Assange “could die” in a British maximum-security facility before he faces his extradition hearing in February 2020.

The WikiLeaks founder (inset) was expelled from his sanctuary at the Ecuadoran Embassy earlier this year and is facing possible extradition to the United States on charges filed under the Espionage Act — which come with a sentence of up to 175 years.

In a letter to British Home Secretary Priti Patel, the doctors — who come from the United States, Britain, Italy, Germany,

Sweden, Sri

Lanka and Australia — called for Assange to be taken to a university teaching hospital for immediate care and assessment.

“We wish to put on record, as medical doctors, our collective serious concerns and to draw the attention of the public and the world to this grave situation,” the letter reads.

“Were such urgent assessment and treatment not to take place, we have real concerns, on the evidence currently available, that Mr. Assange could die in prison. The medical situation is thereby urgent. There is no time to lose.”

Assange lived under asylum at the Ecuadoran Embassy for nearly seven years until it was revoked by the nation in April amid allegations that he used the diplomatic compound as a “center for spying.”

The 48-year-old Australian is currently being held in Belmarsh prison in London, where he is serving a 50-week sentence for jumping bail while he awaits his extradition hearing.

U.S. authorities have accused him of attempting to help former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning obtain access to classified government information.