Prison authorities granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to marry his long-term partner, Stella Moris.
Assange, who is being held in London’s high-security Belmarsh Prison as he awaits a court decision about possible extradition to the United States, has two children with Moris. She was a former member of his legal team, and they have been engaged since 2017.
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Thank you all for the well wishes! I will print them and send to Julian tomorrow.
We hope to be married before 2022! pic.twitter.com/i5xo3flmKd
— Stella Moris #FreeAssangeNOW (@StellaMoris1) November 11, 2021
Moris said the couple informed the prison that they wanted to get married in the summer and were continually delayed until they said they would embark on legal action Thursday. The prison then granted them permission to marry.
“I am relieved but still angry that legal action was necessary to put a stop to the illegal interference with our basic right to marry,” Moris wrote on Twitter, in another post saying they hope to tie the knot before 2022.
Moris alleged earlier that the delays were part of a plot to break Assange mentally and indicative of “deeply criminal and unethical behaviour that has been going on to make Julian’s life impossible in every little aspect, [and] to try to affect him and break him psychologically.”
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The prison said the couple’s request was “received, considered and processed in the usual way by the prison governor, as for any other prisoner.”
In 2019, Assange was indicted in the U.S. on 18 charges related to the 2010 leak of 500,000 classified documents of military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. The U.S. is currently appealing a court decision to withhold extradition due to Assange’s risk of suicide.
