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She is concerned about the health and life of the founder of Wikileaks, lawyer Stella Moris argued in a petition to the responsible court, according to a report by the British news agency “PA” on Saturday night. Assange is isolated 23 hours a day and is no longer visited, Moris said.
Parents of two children
According to court documents, according to PA, Moris met Assange in 2011 as a lawyer and began a close relationship with him in 2015 when he was still living at the Ecuadorian embassy. Two children have emerged from the connection.
Assange is currently in HMP Belmarsh High Security Prison in South East London. An extradition process in the United States is scheduled to continue on May 18. More recently, on March 25, a court rejected Assange’s bail request for the coronavirus pandemic.
Worry about the corona virus
According to friends, the founder of Wikileaks has been suffering from health problems for months. Furthermore, the coronavirus is spreading in the detention center. According to PA, an inmate had already died of Covid-19 lung disease.
The United States judiciary accuses Assange of helping whistleblower Chelsea Manning (32), then Bradley Manning, to release secret material from US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to Washington, the safety of American informants in particular was put at risk. Assange faces up to 175 years in prison if convicted of all 18 charges.
Legal odyssey
He denies the allegations. According to his lawyers, the charges are built to set an example. They see the trial as an attack on freedom of expression and demand Assange’s release. The Wikileaks revelations had led, among other things, to the detection of war crimes by US soldiers.
Assange had fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012, for fear of extradition to the United States. British police arrested Assange in April 2019 for violating bail conditions by fleeing to the embassy. (kes / SDA)
