UN special rapporteur on torture on his investigation into the case of Assange
&gt;Assange who is being persecuted. Second, he himself has been ill-treated to the point that he is now exhibiting symptoms of psychological torture.<p>And then<p>&gt;In summary: Julian Assange uncovered torture, has been tortured himself<p>This is one of the reasons I don&#x27;t trust this rapporteur, because he seems to make those claims interchangeably when they very clearly aren&#x27;t the same thing. Can you show signs of psychological torture without someone actually torturing you? Yes. So either make the real claim - that someone has been torturing him and explain why. Or make the PR claim - that he has shown symptoms of psychological torture. But don&#x27;t swing back and forth between two very different things.<p>The guy literally repeats thoroughly debunked tropes from Assange&#x27;s defence.<p>&gt;Why would a person be subject to nine years of a preliminary investigation for rape without charges ever having been filed?<p>Because the person they were investigating left the country and then put up one of the most extensive appeals against extradition in history <i>and then</i> fled to an embassy. If Assange had complied with the extradition those charges would have been filed when he returned to Sweden within months of the investigation being opened.<p>You know, you can&#x27;t have it both ways, you can&#x27;t claim it&#x27;s terrible it&#x27;s been going on so long for a process that was deliberately dragged out.