MOSCOW, 12 APR – RIA Novosti. The bride of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Stella Morris urged the court to release him on bail from prison for health reasons, saying that while Assange in the Ecuador Embassy in London the couple had two children, according to British newspaper the Mail.
According to the channel, Stella Morris engaged to the founder of WikiLeaks 2017 and raising their two sons: two-year-old Gabriel and one year old max.
Morris believes that the life of her lover is threatened. In the prison where he is held, documented cases of infection with coronavirus, one prisoner died from the disease. Assange 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, all visits to him stopped.
Earlier, the court refused to release Assange from prison for health reasons and because of the threat of infection with the coronavirus, as it violated the rules of parole and was a fugitive from justice.
Assange is accused in Sweden in 2010, sexual harassment and rape, in hiding since June 2012 in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, fearing extradition to the Scandinavian country. On the morning of 11 April 2019, he was detained at the request of the United States. A court in London found him guilty of violating the terms of bail and was sentenced to 11 months in prison.
hearings on the issue of extradition began on may 2 last year. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. government announced that Assange filed new charges of 17 counts of violations of the espionage act and the disclosure of classified information. In the case of extradition to U.S. Assange faces a prison sentence of up to 175 years.
