Dear friend,
I’m Rebecca Vincent, RSF’s international campaigns director. It’s now Week 3 of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange’s US extradition hearing at the Old Bailey in London.
Despite severe restrictions on observers, RSF is the only NGO that has gained access to the hearing, and we’ve managed to monitor proceedings on most days. We will continue to do so whenever possible. Yesterday I was in court to witness the powerful testimony of Professor Michael Kopelman, a neuropsychiatrist and the first medical expert to testify in this hearing.
Professor Kopelman’s testimony was strong and disturbing. He spoke of Julian Assange’s history of depression, his anxiety, his frequent suicidal thoughts, his auditory hallucinations, his PTSD, and his sleep disorder.
