Assange does not deserve this jail hell

I HAVE tried and failed to get an official explanation of why Julian Assange is being held in miserable conditions in Belmarsh, a maximum-security jail built for the most dangerous prisoners in the country.

Mr Assange is not a convicted prisoner and he is not in any way violent. He is on remand waiting for our tortoise-like court system to rule on his extradition, an unjustified and vindictive attempted state kidnapping by Washington.

If we still had a civil society, there would be a well-supported campaign to improve his conditions.