Source: Zongxiang News
Oriental Network· Zongxiang News Feng Yinlun Comprehensive
According to the British " Daily Mail " and other media reports on the 12th, Julian Assange's fiancee, founder of WikiLeaks , Stella Morris, requested the court to consider Assange , the risk of infection with the new coronavirus in prison, and allowed him to be released on bail. It also publicly stated that the two had two children while living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
, 37, was born in South Africa and is a citizen of Swedish . He graduated from Asian and African College of London and received a degree in law and political science. He later obtained a master's degree in Oxford University .
In 2015, Morris came to the embassy for handling Assange's legal situation, and the two became friends and started a relationship.
According to the exposed legal documents, the two got engaged in 2017 and raised two sons: the two-year-old eldest son Gabriel and the one-year-old second son Max, both British citizens.
Assange watched the birth process of the child in a London hospital through live videos online. The eldest son was secretly arranged to enter the embassy to meet him. Both sons also reportedly visited their father in prison.
More than foreign media have published photos of two toddlers and interviews with Morris. Morris said they "fall in love" and planned to get married. "I love Assange deeply and I look forward to marrying him. He has been trying his best to protect me and keep me away from the nightmare in his life."
Asange, 48, is currently incarcerated in London's heavily guarded Belmarsh Prison. He was asked to be tried on espionage charges in the United States and is fighting an extradition request made by the U.S. government.
Recently, a prisoner in the prison died of COVID-19. At present, although Assange is in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, all visits to him have been stopped. But Morris believes that his life is also being threatened, so he has to choose to reveal the relationship and the fact that the love is crystallized. "I can see that his life is on the edge of a cliff."
Assange had previously suffered from chronic lung disease, and his condition was worsened by hiding in the embassy for many years.
"Assange's poor health puts him in very high danger like many other vulnerable people. I don't think he can escape the coronavirus," Morris said.
Morris also said that she has been living a "quiet and private" life, raising her two sons, while "longing to one day we will be together like family."
Previously, Assange's legal team tried to apply for a postponement of his extradition hearing. The application reason was that the epidemic of the new coronavirus would bring in irreversible difficulties to his case, but the court rejected this request, believing that Assange had previously abandoned his security and absconded, which was risky. A British judge even said he had "no reason to be released".
On April 9, Australian non-partisan MP Andrew Wilki and other MPs wrote to the British government, demanding that Assange be transferred from being detained in prison to being house arrest at home. Wilkie published the content of the letter on social media, writing: "He should be put home in house arrest, he poses no danger to society." After Morris made his secret, WikiLeaks also responded on social media Twitter, "Assange's partner, the mother of two young children, urged the British government to bail him and other vulnerable prisoners as the coronavirus swept the prison."
Assange is 48 years old and is an Australian. In 2010, the WikiLeaks website he created exposed a large number of confidential documents involving the Afghan War and the Iraq War. In the same year, he was accused of sexually harassing and rapeing two women while in Sweden, and was investigated by Swedish prosecutors.
In 2012, the British Supreme Court ruled that Assange could be extradited to Sweden, but because of concerns that Sweden would extradite itself to the United States, Assange walked into the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in June of the same year, seeking political asylum in the embassy and finally settled down.
On April 11, 2019, Ecuador announced that it would stop providing diplomatic asylum to Assange, and the British London police arrested him in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
On May 1, the London court sentenced Assange to 50 weeks in prison for violating bail regulations. The Swedish Procuratorate has since resumed its investigation into him. At the end of May, the United States filed 17 charges of violating laws related to counter-espionage and leaking secret information, and combined with previous allegations of co-conspiring to engage in computer hacking, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison.
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