Actress Pamela Anderson paid a visit to longtime friend Julian Assange in prison this week, later defending the WikiLeaks founder and lamenting that he is "really cut off from everybody" in London's Belmarsh Prison.
"He does not deserve to be in a supermax prison. He has never committed a violent act. He is an innocent person," the former "Baywatch" bombshell, who was draped in a "free speech" rant shawl, said after the visit, according to The Sun. "He is a good man, he is an incredible person. I love him, I can't imagine what he has been going through."
For the last seven years Assange was living in Ecuador's embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on sexual assault allegations. Last month authorities dragged him out and promptly arrested him. Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for jumping bail in the U.K. and has vowed to fight extradition to the U.S.
Anderson often visited her embattled friend during his stay at the embassy and has been vocal of her support for him. In a recent tweet to her more than 1 million followers, she proclaimed that Assange is "the world’s most innocent man being treated as "the world's most dangerous man".
In a separate tweet she expressed distress after hearing about Assange's arrest.
"I am in shock," she tweeted. "I couldn’t hear clearly what he said? He looks very bad."
Speaking after her visit with Assange, Anderson further noted that the ordeal was a misrule of law in operation.
"It is absolute shock that he has not been able to get out of his cell," she said, according to the Sun.
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