Pamela Anderson is one of Assange's first visitors to the prison

Pamela Anderson is one of Assange's first visitors to the prison

The American actress and rights activist Pamela Andersen and Wikileaks editor-in-chief Kristen Grafensen on Tuesday paid a visit to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his prison in London.

This is the first private visit to Asang since he was arrested by British police at the Ecuadorian embassy and imprisoned in the heavily guarded Belmarsh prison and sentenced to 50 weeks' imprisonment for breaching the obligations to secure his former release.

Julian Assange was arrested in April after spending nearly seven years at the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden, who was accused of rape. Sweden subsequently raised the charges. Assange now faces the risk of being extradited to the United States on charges of plotting to conduct an electronic breach and obtain confidential US national security documents.