LET ASSANGE SUNBATHE: ECUADOR MINISTER

[Zorro]

Ecuador will lobby for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be allowed to sunbathe because it is a "fundamental right".

Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino will visit Assange on Sunday at the Ecuadorean embassy in London where he's been holed up for almost a year.

The following day Mr Patino will meet with his British counterpart William Hague to discuss the Australian's plight.

"I will be asking the British government to allow Mr Assange to sunbathe and enjoy the warm weather and sunshine because, unfortunately, at this moment in time he hasn't been able to do so for a year," Ecuador's foreign minister told UK newspaper the Evening Standard on Tuesday.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/17562963/let-assange-sunbathe-ecuador-minister/

I didn't know that modern-day Britain could be so cruel and callous by grossly violating Julian's fundamental human right to sunbathe. Of course, Patino could always buy him a sunlamp.

I think he must really be driving the embassy staff crazy.

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. Sunbathing is a fundamental human right?

I did not know that.

[ocpagu]

2. Maybe it should be.

Sunbathing can help prevent more than 25 chronic diseases and save billions

"The health of people in Britain is being put at risk by official policy that discourages sunbathing and promotes use of sunblock products. The cost of disease caused by insufficient exposure to sunlight and consequent deficiency of vitamin D is estimated to be billions of pounds per year in Britain.

Government advice to “cover up, keep in the shade…and use factor 15 plus sunscreen”* is based on outdated information, mistaken interpretation of evidence and guesswork. It ignores evidence showing that insufficient vitamin D is closely associated with, and almost certainly is a cause of, dozens of chronic diseases including 16 different types of cancers, several nervous system diseases including schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis, diabetes, raised blood pressure, polycystic ovary disease, menstrual problems, infertility, infections and dental decay. "

Read more:
http://www.healthresearchforum.org.uk/sunbathing.html

Don't see anything wrong with Ecuador's demand. Even prisoners have the right to sunbathe. In Brazil, they enjoy two hours of sunbathe per day.