WikiLeaks founder marries in UK jail

Australian Julian Assange and his fiancée, South African lawyer Stella Moris, were married on Wednesday, March 23, in a British high-security prison where the WikiLeaks founder has been held since his arrest in 2019 at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. .

Assange, 50, is trying by all means not to be extradited to the United States, which wants to judge him for the WikiLeaks publication from 2010 of hundreds of thousands of secret documents, which revealed abuses committed by the US Army in Iraq and Afghanistan .

Last week, the British Supreme Court denied him the possibility of appealing his delivery, on which the British Minister of the Interior, Priti Patel, now has the last word.

Assange and Moris secretly had two children during the almost seven years that the Australian lived as a refugee in the Ecuadorian legation in London, where he was arrested in April 2019 when President Lenín Moreno withdrew the protection that his predecessor Rafael had given him in 2012.

In November they announced their engagement and obtained permission to marry in Belmarsh prison, south of the capital.

Moris arrived around 12:45 pm local time, wearing a wedding dress designed by Vivienne Westwood and accompanied by her two children, in white shirts and plaid kilts.

The legendary British creator, 80, who has supported Assange’s cause for years, also designed the Scottish kilt that the groom wore, in a nod to his Scottish ancestors.