Julian Assange married his fiancée, lawyer, Stella Morris in a low-key ceremony in the London prison. Since 2019, Assange has been in the Belmarsh prison in southeast London on a variety of accusations related to WikiLeaks’ disclosure of a massive trove of sensitive documents more than a decade ago.
According to supporters, Assange and Stella Moris had permission to bring about four guests and two witnesses to the wedding on Wednesday. As they moved toward the prison, Moris posed for photographs with her and Assange’s two sons. She wore a dress and veil with messages from friends stitched on them.
After the wedding, Moris made an emotional speech to a crowd outside prison. Fighting back tears and wearing her wedding dress, she said: “I’m very happy but I’m very sad … I wish he were here…What we’re going through is inhuman.” She added: “He’s the most amazing person in the world and he should be free. But our love will carry us through.”
Julian Assange denies culpability
“Every part of this private event is being intensely policed, from our guest list to the wedding picture,” Moris wrote in the Guardian newspaper on Wednesday ahead of the wedding. “This is not a prison wedding, it is a declaration of love and resilience in spite of the prison walls; in spite of the political persecution, in spite of the arbitrary detention; in spite of the harm and harassment inflicted on Julian and our family,” she wrote.
Britain’s Supreme Court has declined to extradite him to the United States to face spying accusations. Assange’s options have dwindled as an outcome of this development. However, his defense team could still put up with his case to the European Court of Human Rights; or challenge the original judge’s other conclusions. They may communicate to the British Home Secretary in the coming weeks before she decides whether or not to extradite him.
Julian Assange denied culpability. Moreover, his supporters such as Amnesty International claim that his extradition has a political motive. However, they assert that by divulging records that indicated