(a telling commentary by UN Rapporteur for Torture two years ago)
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2020/06/26/un-reporting-on-torture-of-assange-banned-from-corporate-media/
UN Reporting on Torture of Assange Banned from Corporate Media: Marking International Day in Support of Torture Victims
by Ray McGovern Posted on June 26, 2020
Nils Melzer, UN Rapporteur on Torture, belatedly learned that Julian Assange was being tortured. Meltzer came to realize that he had been misled by the “news” about Assange in the Establishment media, so he did his own investigation.
With his findings and impressions in hand, Melzer thought that June 26, the International Day in Support of Torture Victims, would be a fitting occasion to publish an op-ed on the results of his investigation. It turned out that his draft was as welcome as the proverbial skunk at a picnic. Here is a note that Melzer appended to his op-ed once it was finally posted – in Medium:
“This Op-Ed has been offered for publication to the Guardian, The Times, the Financial Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian, the Canberra Times, the Telegraph, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Thomson Reuters Foundation, and Newsweek. None responded positively.”
The title given his op-ed in Medium on June 26, 2019 was Demasking the Torture of Julian Assange: On the occasion of the International Day in Support of Torture Victims.
See also:
https://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2021/07/08/assange-to-be-moved-around-sine-die/
and
htttps://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2022/04/25/bogus-charge-of-rape-did-in-julian-assange/