Solitary confinement is torture, full stop, period. His symptoms are consistent with a person who has undergone years of psychological torture according to Nils Melzer, the UN's special rapporteur on torture. He has suffered a stroke, lost tons of weight and struggles to even remember his own name according to people who've seen him in court. The UN found him to have been arbitrarily detained in the embassy for 6 years prior to that. The witness that accused him of hacking admitted that he lied to feds that were trying to build a case against him:
https://stundin.is/grein/13627/
There is no credible evidence that Assange ever hacked anything relating to the material he has been charged for. Manning already had access to the files- there was no need to hack them. Why do you think Reporters Without Borders, Amnesty International, and Daniel Ellsberg have called on the case to be dropped? Do they just want reporters to hack material willynilly? His only role in the whole thing was as a publisher. That is what the Biden DOJ is criminalizing here. I'm curious why you think US law applies to him anyway. He's not a US citizen, has never been here in his life. By the same measure you would support Saudi Arabia extraditing Jamal Khashoggi if it could fabricate a hacking charge against him.
As I mentioned to
@Dinsy Ejotuzabove, executive order 13526 forbids classifying information to conceal criminality. So much of the information should not have been classified in the first place. To the extent that any material was legitimately classified, it was really on Chelsea Manning as the source. No one was hurt as a result of the disclosures. And what about the people that were hurt as a result of Bush/Cheney's lies. A war that killed a million people and displaced millions more. Why are people who reveal war crimes treated like villains while the ones that caused mass death & suffering go on with their lives like it never happened.
It was Michael Isikoff and Zach Dorfman at Yahoo! that reported the story about the CIA plotting to kidnap or kill Assange. It's not some conspiracy theory that I just made up:
https://news.yahoo.com/cia-plot-kidnap-kill-julian-150552730.html. They wouldn't have to assassinate him anymore, they can just bury him in a dark cell until he dies. But it was reportedly discussed at the highest levels prior to his eviction from the embassy.
You are certainly entitled to play dumb/naive and make backhanded comments about conspiracy theories all you like- it must be nice being that clueless and unassuming about the world- but there's every reason to believe he would suffer horrific treatment if sent to the US or Australian prison system. But I think you would rather enjoy that, so just say so and we can move on.