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ASSANGE EXTRADITION, BRITAIN, COVID-19, WIKILEAKS

Assangeโ€™s Father Says His Son Has Been Vaccinated

November 16, 2021

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John Shipton also told a French interview program that too much focus was on Julian Assange and not enough on the crimes WikiLeaks has revealed.

 

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/11/16/assanges-father-says-his-son-has-been-vaccinated/

 

โ€œHe has been vaccinated, of course,โ€ Shipton told the show Thinkerview, live-streamed on Monday. โ€œSo he has no choice in this. No choice about anything. He has no control over his body.โ€

 

Shipton said every medicine Assange accepted in prison would go on his record and wind up in court. Likewise any medicine he refused would also be reported.

 

There is โ€œnot a mandated Vaxโ€ in the prison, Shipton told Consortium News in an email. โ€œI was attempting to illustrate that Julianโ€™s body is not under his control. All actions, as I understand it, are noted and available to [the] prosecution. The psychiatric staff and medical staff write reports which are available.โ€

Shipton told CN that โ€œif [the] Vax [is] not taken, I presume prison administration, no less than other institutions โ€ฆโ€ would report it. โ€œThus a freedom which in practice does not exist,โ€ he said.

 

Shipton told the French interviewer: โ€œHe only has choice about what he might think about from this minute to the next minute. What his thoughts are, are his. The rest is in the complete control of the jail administration because it is a maximum security prison. Everything โ€ฆ is supervised. โ€

According to testimony at his September 2020 extradition hearing, Assange had been reluctant to discuss his health with prison doctors, fearing he would be put in isolation.

 

The imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher has a chronic lung condition. His block at Belmarsh had an outbreak of the virus last year and was locked down.

Assange has said nothing on the record either way about vaccines or public health measures like lockdowns or wearing masks. He has been incommunicado directly with the public since Ecuador shut off his internet connection in March 2018 inside its embassy in London where Assange had been granted political asylum in 2012.

 

In August, the U.K. Ministry of Justice told Consortium News in an email that a vaccine was made available to all inmates at Belmarsh Prison, where Assange has been held since April 2019. He remains there on remand pending the U.S. appeal of a judgement not to extradite him.

โ€œAll prisoners have been offered a vaccine,โ€ wrote MoJ senior press officer Sarah Fairely. โ€œAs it is a personal health matter we donโ€™t hold the figures on those who have taken the vaccine.โ€

 

In July, Insidetime, a British newspaper for prisoners, reported that more than 50 percent of prisoners in U.K. jails had refused a Covid-19 vaccine.

โ€œAt four London prisons โ€“ Wandsworth, Belmarsh, Thameside and Isis โ€“ a total of 2,722 men had been offered the vaccine by early June, of whom 1,254 (46 per cent) turned it down,โ€ the newspaper reported.

 

Without saying a word about vaccines, Assange has been swept up in the contentious issue, which has divided parts of his supporters. Some Assange backers have made their support for him visible at anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protests.