mo4ch:>Belmarsh ‘barely functioning’: Assange tells friend Covid-19 is raging through British prison | Mo4ch News

Julian Assange has revealed to a friend the harrowing details of his life in Belmarsh. WikiLeaks founder is still confined at the UK maximum security prison, despite it being stricken with the novel coronavirus.Covid-19 has spread around Belmarsh to such an extent that the prison is “barely functioning” any more at all, British freelance video journalist Vaughan Smith has revealed in a Facebook post, after talking with Assange by phone.As many as 150 prison staff members have been forced into self-isolation as they might have contracted the coronavirus, Smith said. The prison admitted in mid-March that the disease already reached it premises and even reported one coronavirus-linked inmate death.Also on rt.comAssange’s life in GRAVE DANGER as first Covid-19 death confirmed in Belmarsh prison — Wikileaks editor-in-chiefAssange told Smith that the real death toll might well be higher, since “the virus is ripping through the prison.”The WikiLeaks founder has to spend almost 24 hours alone…