Pamela Anderson writes letter to Kanye West asking him to support Julian Assange

'I support him and I know you value free speech'

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Pamela Anderson, who visited Julian Assange at his Ecuadorean Embassy refuge in London multiple times, has written to Kanye West in an attempt to gain his support for the WikiLeaks founder.

In a letter published to her website, Anderson claims Assange’s current situation amounts to “torture” and that he has been cut off from receiving visitors, phone calls, or using the internet.

“I support him and I know you value free speech,” she writes. “Visibility is good for him especially in America, where they are trying to put him away for life or worse for exposing corruption in governments. I think they are trying to kill him. It is torture.”

She adds: “I want to seek more voices and share more about his fight. Public support could set him free. Media is monopolised, so some brave voices are the only hope to break through.”

Anderson praises West’s “no filter” approach, encouraging him to look at Assange’s “life and writing”. She concludes with: “I think you’d admire him”.

Assange has sought refuge at the Ecuadorean Embassy in central London for more than four years to avoid returning to Sweden, which is seeking Assange’s extradition in a rape investigation. Assange denies the rape allegation and says he fears being extradited to the U.S. to face espionage charges if he leaves.

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