Julian Assange Is Doing Better: Rep

A month and a half after Julian Assange said he was "slowly dying" inside a London prison, the WikiLeaks founder's spokesperson says Assange is doing better. He's been moved from solitary confinement, the rep says, per Reuters: "I saw him about 10 days ago—he has improved thanks to the pressure from his legal team, the general public, and amazingly, actually from other inmates in Belmarsh Prison to get him out of isolation." Assange, 48, is fighting extradition to the US on espionage charges; an extradition hearing begins next week. Assange's father told the BBC this week that he fears extradition would effectively amount to a "death sentence" for his son. (More Julian Assange stories.)