I last saw Julian Assange a little before Christmas. We were in the visiting room at HMP Belmarsh, surrounded by 30 or so other inmates, sitting at tables and chairs that are secured to the floor. Overhead strip lights provided the only illumination. The weight on Assange’s shoulders was palpable. I am one of the only journalists who has been allowed to visit him in prison.
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Prosecutors enlisted the full-time legal consultant to counter claims that a Saudi prisoner accused in the bombing of the destroyer Cole was in a state of “learned helplessness” at Guantánamo Bay.