Julian Assange, looking pale & sickly, caught on camera leaving London Court in Police van

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, looking extremely frail, was filmed leaving London's Westminster Magistrates’ Court in a police van during his brief hearing on Monday. 48-year-old whistleblower currently imprisoned in Belmarsh is slapped with 18 charges in United States including Espion Act, for conspiring to gain access into US military secrets between January and May 2010. 

On Monday, Julian Assange left London Court after a short 12-minute hearing in a police van where he was caught on camera, looking ailing and pale. In foot acquired by RT captured overwhelming voices of supporters who asked whistleblower to "Stay strong" and comforted him by saying, "Remember we here for you. You will be free. We won't let m do this to you, because your freedom is our freedom." White-haired Julian Assange just dded in ackwledgment, without uttering a word. 

His lawyers have complained that prison officials have restricted m from spending adequate time with whistleblower ahead of crucial extradition hearing. Assange was arrested in London's Ecuadorian embassy in April after he sought asylum between four walls for seven years. whistleblower has maintained that US charges against him were a political attempt to choke voices of journalists and publishers. Extradition proceedings are expected to start in February 2020. 

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As per reports, Julian Assange spoke only to confirm his primary details like his name, date of birth. Often oscillating between titles of a journalist, publisher, data warrior, and a spy, Assange claimed global tability for divulging war crimes of US during nation's 'war against terror.' However, if indicted whistleblower could face up to 175 years in prison. Earlier, Julian Assange's far had claimed that WikiLeaks founder is "subjected to every sort of torment," despite condemnation from United Nations. After meeting Assange in August, his far said that whistleblower was a bit shaky, is suffering from anxiety and has lost a lot of weight. 

WikiLeaks 

Wikileaks, an anti-secrecy organisation, was founded in 2006 as a platform for whistleblowers to release classified information anymously. By 2015, Wikileaks became a portal to publish over 10 million documents, including top-secret documents.  Ever since its launch in 2006, Wikileaks has published thousands of classified documents, disclosing details from national security, war, politics to film industry. In 2010, as per published files of WikiLeaks, Congress' Rahul Gandhi told n US Ambassador at lunch that Hindu extremists groups post a greater threat to his country than Muslim terrorists. 

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