Not for anything Assange can be charged with. But the US routinely cages people in windowless concrete boxes until death for any number of things, even tax evas

Not for anything Assange can be charged with. But the US routinely cages people in windowless concrete boxes until death for any number of things, even tax evasion. Lifelong solitary confinement is considered equivalent or worse across the civilized world. In the US it's routine for people who challenge the status quo, for whom a legal reason can always be found even if it's unrelated to the original pretext for their arrest.