'I am relieved that reason prevailed'
The WikiLeaks founder has been held at the maximum security Category A jail in south-eastAssange, 50, met his future wife in 2011, while he was living in the Ecuadorean embassy in the capital.Ms Moris said: ‘I am relieved that reason prevailed and I hope there will be no further interference with our marriage.’, saying it would be ‘oppressive’ on his mental health and he would be at risk of committing suicide.If found guilty he could face up to 175 years in prison.
Assange, pictured in a prison van driven into Southwark Crown Court in London on May 2019, met his wife-to-be in 2011 when she was a legal researcher A date has not yet been set for the couple’s wedding. Ms Moris revealed how she met Assange when she was working as a legal researcher and asked to look into Swedish legal theory and practice.
In a statement supporting an application for bail in April last year, she wrote: ‘Over time Julian and I developed a strong intellectual and emotional bond. He became my best friend and I become his.’The friendship developed, and despite the ‘extraordinary circumstances’, a close relationship began in 2015, she said.‘Mr Assange’s application was received, considered and processed in the usual way by the prison governor, as for any other prisoner,’ they said.
Ms Moris addresses the media as she arrives at the High Court in London, ahead of a hearing for the US government’s appeal over the decision not to extradite Assange, on October 27, 2021
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