 For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Third week of the trial portion of the extradition hearing of Julian Assange concluded on 25 September. The defence team produced a couple of medical experts and digital forensic experts this week. Also, former Brazilian president Luiz Inansio Lula da Silva published a letter defending Julian Assange in an international newspaper called The Guardian, key aspects of this week's extradition hearings. Former Brazilian president and leader of Workers' Party Luiz Inansio Lula da Silva defended Assange by publishing an open letter in The Guardian. Defence team demolished prosecution's argument that Assange helped Manning to crack an encrypted password to gain access to the computer network that did not belong to her. Digital forensic experts say it wasn't possible to crack an encrypted password hash such as the one Manning obtained. Digital experts also stated that the attempted cracking of the password hash was not technologically possible in 2010. First rounds of medical testimonies were produced by the defence this week. The testimonies from medical experts stated that either the eventuality of the extradition or a high possibility of it is enough to trigger a suicide attempt from Assange. For the first time, Judge Vanessa Barrister acknowledged the political dimensions in the case against Julian Assange. Assange is facing 18 charges under the Expansion Act and Computer Fraud and Abuse case. Assange is currently held in Belmash prison in East London. Fearing that took place in February was scheduled to resume in May but they were postponed due to the pandemic. Let's take a look at the key updates from trial week 3. The former Brazilian president published a letter on Monday, September 21 in The Guardian defending Julian Assange. Lula said that, Brazilians are indebted to Assange due to his work in WikiLeaks that made public the meetings that were held between those who would later become part of the interim government of Michel Thurmer and functionaries of the State Department of the US to deal with the questions related to the privatisation of Brazil's Deepwater oil deposits. Lula also wrote about the Computer Fraud and Abuse case charged on Assange. He said that, the accusation made by the US president that Assange had helped Chelsea Manning, the former member of the military unsource of the documents leaked by the WikiLeaks, to hack government computers is dangerous and false. Patrick Eller is a digital forensic expert who worked with the US Army for 20 years as a criminal investigator. Eller is the current CEO of Metadata Forensics which provides digital investigation and forensic examination to both civil and criminal cases. Eller shot down the argument of prosecution that Assange helped Manning to hack the password of the government computer, which in turn anonymised the source of the leak. Eller stated that Manning was caught by the US government by tracking her IP address, which implies that the talks on the hash was never really picked up from the conversation and no foreign decryption attempts ever materialised. Eller also testified that the attempted tracking of the password hash was not technologically possible even in 2010 when the conversation happened. Eller testifies even it was feasible the purpose would have been to conceal Manning's identity and it would not have given any increased access to the government database. Eller also pointed out that the investigation and prosecution in Manning's case at the time was unable to find any evidences of Assange's involvement in the document's leaking process. Dr. Michelle Coppelman, emeritus professor of neuro-psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London. He took the stand to testify about his visits with Julien Assange in prison and his medical evaluations. According to Coppelman, Assange's health is steadily deteriorating and Assange has a history of depression since 2014-15 when he was in Ecuador's embassy in London as a political refugee. Coppelman also stated that apart from depression, Assange also suffered from musical hallucinations during his depression episodes. The prosecution tried to turn into a question of whether Assange had delusions which he vehemently denied by the psychiatrist. He also added there is a high risk of suicide if Assange were to face a looming extradition process. Dr. Sandra Crosby is an associate professor of medicine and public health at Boston University and an expert on the physical and psychological impact of torture who visited Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in the beginning of October 2017. She stated that Assange was identified with symptoms of PTSD which is post-traumatic stress disorder and psychological distress and he complained of a number of physical symptoms that are worrisome. The testimony also states that her 2019 February visit to the embassy was spied on and her medical notes were taken. Judge Barrister partly acknowledged the possibility of political overtones in the case against Juliana Assange for the first time. Judge Barrister asked the defense whether they believe that the US elections could impact the trial while discussing what the timeline of the trial will look like for the next couple of weeks. This was a not-too-longstanding attempt by Assange's lawyer to demonstrate the political nature of the extradition and espionage trial against him. Even though, the defense stated that the elections could impact the trial's outcome. They stated that they do not expect the judge to deliver a verdict before the scheduled date in November. Barrister later announced that a ruling will not be possible before January. Both the US-UK Extradition Treaty and the UK Extradition Act of 2003 explicitly prohibits the extradition for political trials or in cases where the extradition could potentially cause mental or physical harm.