More than 60 doctors wrote an open letter published Monday saying they feared Julian Assange's health was so bad that the WikiLeaks founder could die inside a top-security British jail.
The 48-year-old Australian is still fighting a US bid to extradite him from Britain on charges filed under the Espionage Act that could see him given a sentence of up to 175 years in a US prison.
In the letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel, Britain's Interior Minister, the doctors call for Assange to be moved from Belmarsh prison in southeast London to a university teaching hospital.
