Andrew Hankinson

Is Julian Assange on a hiding to nothing?

A dark question looms over Nils Melzer’s two-year investigation: is suicide preferable to the wrath of publicly shamed America?

Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, February 2016. [Getty Images]

  • The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution

    Nils Melzer

    Verso, pp. 333, £20

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