LONDON (Dispatches) -- Julian Assange was strip searched and moved to a bare cell on the day his extradition was announced, his wife has said.
Stella Assange said the WikiLeaks founder was told he was being moved to a bare cell “for his own protection”. He had no visits over the weekend following home secretary Priti Patel’s announcement on Friday that she was allowing his extradition to the United States. “Prison is a constant humiliation but what happened on Friday felt especially cruel,” she said.