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The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been hospitalized in the Belmarsh prison hospital in London. It tells his Swedish lawyer Per E. Samuelson according to TT.
Assange is imprisoned in the British capital for having violated terms of security. Samuelson met with Assange on Friday and says he is very weak.
"Assange is in such a bad shape that it is not possible to conduct a normal conversation with him," says Samuelson to Upsala Nya Tidning.
In a letter to the district court in Uppsala, Samuelson has requested that the court postpone a hearing on June 3, where it must be decided whether Assange is to be extradited to Sweden.
But the court has rejected the request and the hearing will take place as planned.
Earlier this month, the Swedish prosecutor resumed the investigation of the rape case, which is related to Assange in Sweden.
The charges of rape and assault against two women date back to 2010 - the same year that WikiLeaks published large amounts of secret stamped documents.
The US Department of Justice announced last week that there are 17 new charges against Assange., According to the Ministry, Assange has illegally disclosed names of confidential sources and violated the espionage law.
In addition, he must have conspired with and assisted former US intelligence officer and whistleblower Chelsea Manning in providing confidential information.
In addition, the accusers believe that Assange instructed Manning in one of the major cases in US history of disclosing confidential information.
According to Julian Assange's lawyer, the charges of espionage are a "threat" to all journalists.
The new charges come, a month's time after the Ministry of Justice published a slightly smaller case against Assange.
In that, he is accused by the United States of publishing, through WikiLeaks, large amounts of confidential US documents about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Assange was arrested on April 11 at Ecuador's embassy by British police. At that time, he had stayed at the embassy for almost seven years.
He is wasting a 50-week sentence in London, which he got to skip the security when he fled to Ecuador's Embassy in 2012.