https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doctors-without-borders-bombi...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doctors-without-borders-bombi...
What you call torture, is the isolation and lack-of-stimulus we put all prisoners through. This treatment is not specific to harass Assange, but Assange and his team wants special treatment specific to Assange.
Assange is different in many ways. A journalist normally does not convince a suicidal army recruit in Iraq to search the local network for more encrypted files he and his team can crack themselves. The only country to reward such behavior with a medal would maybe be Russia.
At best you're blatantly astroturfing. At least have the balls to stick your opinion to your account.
It has been called torture by a large number of people, including Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. You can dispute the definition, but it has a strong basis in international law.
> A journalist normally does not convince a suicidal army recruit in Iraq to search the local network for more encrypted files he and his team can crack themselves.
Journalists do a wide variety of things, sometimes those things are unethical, that doesn't stop them from being journalists.
Regardless of whether you think it's unethical - it's illegal.
Alfred Nobel made his fortune from producing weapons and oil.
Rehabilitating the reputation of people responsible for vast numbers of deaths seems exactly appropriate for the Peace prize when that's its purpose from the beginning.
However, it's common to appeal to that sort of thing. How often do people belabor the absence of pedigree of the prize in economics?
Those who don't believe the award has a "spirit" shouldn't complain about it being violated.
If you don't have any expectations for the Nobel prizes, good for you!