Pamela Anderson has maintained Julian Assange's innocence | Erwin Scheriau/AFP via Getty Images Pamela Anderson visits ‘innocent’ Julian Assange in jail ‘He has never committed a violent act. He is an innocent person.’

Pamela Anderson visited Julian Assange in a high-security London prison Tuesday and said "we need to save his life."

Anderson told reporters outside Belmarsh prison that Assange "does not deserve to be in a supermax prison. He has never committed a violent act. He is an innocent person,” the Evening Standard reported. The actress and activist was accompanied by Wikileaks editor in chief Kristinn Hrafnsson.

Anderson added: “He is a good man, he is an incredible person. I love him, I can’t imagine what he has been going through. It was great to see him, but this is just misrule of law in operation. It is absolute shock that he has not been able to get out of his cell.”

Asked about the lengthy prison sentence Assange could face if he is extradited to the United States, Anderson said: "We need to save his life. That's how serious it is."

Assange was earlier this month sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for a 2012 bail breach offense in the U.K. The decision followed Assange's arrest by British police last month, after Ecuador revoked his political asylum and forced him out of its London Embassy, where he had sought political asylum since 2012.

The Australian was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act for failing to report to a U.K. police station in June 2012, after he had exhausted his legal options in fighting an extradition order to Sweden, where he faced charges of sexual assault and rape.

An extradition request has been filed by the U.S., where he is accused of conspiring with former U.S. military analyst Chelsea Manning to hack a Pentagon computer system and download material. The U.S. Justice Department has called it “one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States.”

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