The news comes a day after UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid signed a request for the WikiLeaks founder to be extradited to the United States, where Assange could face up to 175 years in prison over conspiring to leak classified government information.
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Assange, who had claimed asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in the UK in 2012 due to possible extradition, was arrested on 11 April. He was recently transferred to Belmarsh Prison’s hospital wing after losing "dangerous amounts of weight behind bars".