WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will marry his partner Stella Morris today in the high-security Belmars prison in south-east London, in a small ceremony attended by four guests, two witnesses and two guards.
The fifty-year-old is wanted by the US authorities, who are seeking his extradition to stand trial for espionage over the publication of a huge amount of confidential and secret American documents, mainly about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, by WikiLeaks. If extradited, tried and convicted, he runs the risk of being sentenced to 175 years in prison, practically spending the rest of his life in prison.
Mr Assange, who denies the charges against him, has been held in Belmars Prison since 2019, where he was taken after his arrest after spending seven years locked up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
While living at the embassy, ​​they had two children with Mrs. Morris, a lawyer he first met in 2011 when he joined his team of lawyers. Their relationship began in 2015.
The ceremony will take place during the visiting hours at the prison. The clothes they will wear, Mrs. Morris’s wedding dress and Mr. Assange’s kilt, were created by the British fashion designer Vivian Westwood, who had participated in the campaign for his release. Supporters of the Australian-born Australian consider his case a very serious attack on press freedom.
A British court earlier this month barred Julian Assange from appealing to a Supreme Court ruling in favor of his extradition to the United States. The issue is now in the hands of Conservative Prime Minister Pretty Patel. However, it can legally challenge a possible government decision to extradite him.
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