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Assange to apply for bail over fears of a coronavirus outbreak at HMP Belmarsh
Lawyers for the Wikileaks founder, who suffers from a chronic lung disease, say his health is in imminent danger
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange leaves Westminster Magistrates Court, London, in January

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange will apply for bail today over fears of a coronavirus outbreak at HMP Belmarsh.

Mr Assange is being held at the high-security prison on an extradition warrant for exposing US war crimes and embarrassing information on the West’s so-called war on terror. 

His lawyers announced on Monday that they will tell Westminster Magistrates Court that Mr Assange and other prisoners are in imminent danger from coronavirus spreading through the prison population.

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