Stella Assange, wife of Wikileaks founder, vows to fight on ahead of crucial court date

Pro-Palestinian encampment at Dalhousie University - May 13, 2024 | SaltWire #news #halifax #protestLONDON - In a week's time, WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange could be on a flight to the United States at the end of his years-long legal battle to avoid extradition. Whatever happens, his wife Stella vows the fight for his freedom will go on.

As the clock ticks down to Monday's hearing, she said her husband was very stressed and had trouble sleeping, while it was a very difficult time for her and their family. "All they know is that he shouldn't be in prison and that we're fighting to get him out," said Stella, a lawyer who met her husband when she joined his legal team more than a decade ago.Assange has spent the last five years in Belmarsh maximum security jail, a bleak modern prison in a remote area of southeast London, where the couple married in a 2022 ceremony attended by just four guests - two of whom were guards.

After being dragged out of the embassy in 2019 and jailed for skipping bail, the U.S. did begin extradition proceedings.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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