{"id":402996,"date":"2019-04-12T22:24:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T21:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/british-gitmo-jail-where-julian-assange-is-being-held-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2019-04-12T22:24:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T21:24:58","slug":"british-gitmo-jail-where-julian-assange-is-being-held-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/british-gitmo-jail-where-julian-assange-is-being-held-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018British Gitmo\u2019 jail where Julian Assange is being held \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/thumbnail\/5cb0edbffc7e93851c8b45c0.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being held at Belmarsh Prison, a notorious jail in southeast London that\u2019s earned the moniker of \u2018Britain\u2019s Guantanamo Bay\u2019 as a holding facility for terrorists and other high-profile prisoners.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>RT\u2019s Ruptly agency live-streamed footage from Belmarsh on Friday, after Assange was apparently taken there. Bloomberg reported the same information later, citing Assange\u2019s friend Vaughan Smith. Both Assange\u2019s lawyers and the UK authorities are yet to publicly confirm his whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"media__youtube-frame lazyload\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300px\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UEThVrtD-Kc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Belmarsh is located on the eastern outskirts of London, about 5 miles (8 km) east of Greenwich on the southern bank of the Thames River. The prison opened in 1991, and has been used to imprison high-profile inmates such as Jordanian cleric Abu Qatada and Salafist preacher Anjem Choudary \u2013 but also former Labour MP Denis MacShane, convicted of fraud, and former Conservative politician Baron Jeffrey Archer, convicted of perjury.<\/p>\n<p>Belmarsh was also used as the holding facility for around 17 individuals detained under anti-terrorism laws since 2001. Some of them were held in solitary for 22 hours a day,<em> \u201centombed in concrete\u201d<\/em> without charges for months, their attorneys <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/3714864.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told BBC<\/a> in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more-big\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/456268-julian-assange-all-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"read-more-big__container\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__content\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__subtitle\">Also on rt.com<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__title\">Every charge against Julian Assange, explained<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__cover lazyload\" data-bgset=\"&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/xxs\/5caf6a59fc7e9357138b4594.JPG 280w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/xs\/5caf6a59fc7e9357138b4594.JPG 320w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/thumbnail\/5caf6a59fc7e9357138b4594.JPG 460w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/m\/5caf6a59fc7e9357138b4594.JPG 540w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/l\/5caf6a59fc7e9357138b4594.JPG 768w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/article\/5caf6a59fc7e9357138b4594.JPG 980w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/xxl\/5caf6a59fc7e9357138b4594.JPG 1240w&#10;                        \" data-sizes=\"auto\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assange spent almost seven years confined to Ecuador\u2019s embassy in the Knightsbridge district of London, having sought asylum over spurious charges in Sweden that he argued \u2013 correctly, as it turned out \u2013 were a pretext to get him extradited to the US over the 2010 publication of classified US military and diplomatic documents pertaining to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.<\/p>\n<p>After Ecuador revoked his asylum, Assange was carried out of the embassy by UK police on Thursday and jailed on the US extradition warrant.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/456374-julian-assange-belmarsh-prison\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being held at Belmarsh Prison, a notorious jail in southeast London that\u2019s earned the moniker of \u2018Britain\u2019s Guantanamo Bay\u2019 as a holding facility for terrorists and other high-profile prisoners. RT\u2019s Ruptly agency live-streamed footage from Belmarsh on Friday, after Assange was apparently taken there. Bloomberg reported the same information later, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":402997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}