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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange and Stella Moris plan wedding at his prison

December 1, 2020

Imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Stella Moris, his fiancée and the mother of two of his children, reportedly plan to marry at Belmarsh Prison ahead of his extradition hearing in January. He faces up to 175 years in prison in the U.S. if he is convicted of violating the Espionage Act.

The charge stems from WikiLeaks' publication of classified military and diplomatic cables in 2010. The U.S. government says WikiLeaks put lives at risk when it published the names of Iraqi and Afghan human intelligence sources, as well as those of journalists, religious leaders, human rights advocates and political dissidents from repressive regimes.

The Australian-born Assange was granted political asylum by Ecuador in 2012 until Apr 2019, when he was dragged out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and taken to prison. He and the South African-born Moris, a lawyer who had worked on his legal bid to halt his extraditions, began dating in in 2015. The two children, Gabriel, three, and his brother Max, one, were conceived at the embassy.

Assange has children from other relationships.

#23614 Published: November 24, 2020