Read More. It was what keeps things real. And it does. It grounds me and when Julian sees the children, it gives him a lot of peace. She said falling in love had been "an act of rebellion" and she didn't think people understood "the extreme situation and pressure" the couple had faced.
Assange, 48, has been held in the high-security Belmarsh prison in London for the past year, after he was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy. He had been holed up at the embassy, yards from the Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, since , when he was granted asylum as part of a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he was facing allegations of sexual assault.
The Swedish case has since been dropped, but Assange feared US extradition due to his work with WikiLeaks and remained in the embassy. He has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. In a screengrab from a video posted to WikiLeaks' social media, Assange's partner Stella Moris speaks on camera along with the couple's two sons. If found guilty, he faces a maximum years in jail. In November , Sweden dropped the rape investigation the deadline for bringing charges on the sexual assault allegation expired in But it provided little comfort for Assange.
By now America was set on extraditing him. It would have been impossible otherwise. It is exhausting. And it is incredibly stressful. When somebody you love is being hurt, it hurts you, too. She talks about how difficult it has been to take the boys to visit their father in prison under Covid restrictions. Now at least the kids can hug him and I can hug him.
The children are very affectionate with him — so natural. Gabriel and Max are now four and two respectively. Has she explained the concept of prison to them?
She shudders and says no, they are too young. Moris says she knows he will be a good father to them. He teaches them. They liked that game. Julian is a good father. He was like a tiger mom for his eldest son. He taught him how to code at a young age. They would perform a Greek tragedy, the two of them together.
Moris is wearing a diamond engagement ring. I ask if she had to buy it herself. Was it a happy or sad occasion? I consulted with Julian. I described it to him. Has that plan been frustrated?
I ask how Assange is keeping. In his wing, one of his closer friends killed himself, then someone else slit his throat. Indeed, it formed the major plank of his first hearing against extradition. And this is where the Julian Assange story gets even stranger — if possible. Despite the fact there are no new charges against him in the UK, he is still in the category A prison Belmarsh, where he has spent much of his time in solitary confinement.
She had taken into account his history of depression and his autism, and ruled that extraditing Assange would increase the risk of his suicide. For Moris, none of it makes any sense: the UK government should have simply ruled out extraditing Assange on espionage charges. Open any international law textbook and it will give you espionage, treason and sedition as the clearest examples of political offences.
As for the indictment, she says it is nonsense. In other words, the Department of Justice is accusing Assange of trying to protect his off-the-record source — as any decent journalist would.
Media organisations around the world, including the Guardian, have expressed grave concerns about the implications of extraditing Assange.
This article comes from Saturday, the new print magazine from the Guardian which combines the best features, culture, lifestyle and travel writing in one beautiful package. Alan Rusbridger , who edited the Guardian when it worked with Assange, believes that extraditing him to the US has worrying implications.
Rusbridger says the Assange case is particularly dangerous because it comes at a time when so many countries are legislating to outlaw reporting about national security. Boris Johnson has dismissed a Law Commission recommendation that the public interest should be a defence under the Official Secrets Act and has proposed that the government would no longer have to prove that harm had been done by any disclosures.
In other words, investigative journalism could be recast as spying. F ew journalists who worked with Assange will defend everything he has done. However, virtually all of them, including those he had feuds with, have now come out fighting for him.
Mr Assange is no hero. But this case now represents a threat to freedom of expression and, with it, the resilience of American democracy itself. Moris says she is sick of these mealy-mouthed defences. She suggests that mainstream news organisations jumped at the opportunity of working with WikiLeaks, then distanced themselves from him as soon as the going got tough.
The future of living in a free and open society is at stake. Moris is exceptionally bright. But at times she also seems naive — as much the disciple of Assange as his partner. Although Moris and the boys have the right to stay in the UK, Assange could still be deported to Australia.
I notice she is wearing a necklace with three tiny hearts on it. Julian and the two boys. He has been in custody since then. In May he was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching bail conditions by living in the Ecuadorian embassy , and Ms Morris said she was not sure how to explain it to the children. Assange is still fighting to avoid extradition to the US , where he faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of conspiring to commit computer intrusion, having allegedly conspired with Chelsea Manning to leak hundreds of thousands of secret documents almost a decade ago.
We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. Key points: Stella Morris was part of Julian Assange's legal team when he was fighting sexual assault charges in She said she went to the Ecuadorian embassy "almost every single day" once Assange started living there and they started a relationship in She said a security firm tried to steal the used nappy of one of her babies to try to ascertain whether it was Assange's child.
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