Assange defence team denounces detention conditions of the Wikileaks founder After his extradition hearing in London, Julian Assange's legal team and close personal entourage denounce the solitary confinement-like detention conditions in which he is being kept at the high-security Belmarsh prison in southeast London. The 48-year-old Australian is fighting a United States bid to extradite him on charges filed under the US Espionage Act, and sat in the witness box as a London court decided the timetable of his full hearing, due to begin in February. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES