Mon 14 March 2022:
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is ready to marry for the second time. He is currently being imprisoned in London while he battles a US attempt to extradite him on espionage accusations.
According to The Guardian, the 50-year-old will marry Stella Moris, 38, on March 23 at Belmarsh Prison, south-east London, just weeks before the third anniversary of his arrest in April 2019, when he was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in the city.
In November of last year, the pair filed for marriage.
They started dating during Assange’s seven-year detention in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on unrelated sex charges.
Assange and Moris, a South Africa-born lawyer, have two young sons: Gabriel (4) and Max (2). He also has a 33-year-old son from his first wedding.
In January, a judge refused a US request to extradite Assange, but he remains in prison while a higher court considers the US government’s appeal.
After speaking to her fiancé on Sunday, Moris told the PA news agency that they were both “very excited” despite restrictions on the ceremony.
She said they were waiting to hear if they are permitted a photographer, and that guests would have to leave immediately afterwards, despite the marriage taking place during normal visiting hours.
“Obviously we are very excited, even though the circumstances are very restrictive,” she said.
“There continues to be unjustified interference in our plans. Having a photographer for an hour is not an unreasonable request.”
After WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, Assange, an Australian citizen, has been on the radar of US officials.
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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