Brazilian man was being held on the same wing as WikiLeaks founder

An investigation has been launched after a Brazilian man, who was reportedly a friend of Julian Assange and was being held on the same wing as the WikiLeaks founder in Belmarsh prison in south-east London, died on Monday.

The prisons and probation ombudsman confirmed that an investigation was under way into the death of a man named as Manoel Santos. Stella Moris, Assange’s partner, spoke out about Santos’s death on Twitter.

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