© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange makes a speech from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in central London, Britain February 5, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/File Picture
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LONDON (Reuters) -WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will marry his long-term associate Stella Moris inside a high-security jail in southeast London on Wednesday at a small ceremony attended by 4 friends, two official witnesses and two guards.
Assange is being held in jail whereas U.S. authorities search his extradition to face trial on 18 counts referring to WikiLeaks’ launch of huge troves of confidential U.S. army data and diplomatic cables greater than a decade in the past.
The 50-year-old Australian, who denies any wrongdoing, has been in Belmarsh jail since 2019 and earlier than that was holed up within the Ecuadorean embassy in London for seven years.
Whereas dwelling on the embassy he fathered two youngsters with Moris, a lawyer greater than a decade his junior, whom he met in 2011 when she began work on his authorized crew. Their relationship started in 2015.
The registrar-led ceremony will happen throughout visiting hours on the jail, the place a few of Britain’s most infamous criminals have served sentences, together with youngster assassin Ian Huntley.
The jail has refused permission for journalists or a photographer to be current as witnesses on safety grounds.
“I’m satisfied that they worry that folks will see Julian as a human being,” Moris wrote in an article for the Guardian newspaper. “Not a reputation, however an individual. Their worry reveals that they need Julian to stay invisible to the general public in any respect prices, even on his wedding ceremony day, and particularly on his wedding ceremony day.”
She mentioned she was marrying the “love of her life” whom she described an exquisite, clever and humorous.
Moris’s wedding ceremony costume and Assange’s kilt – a nod to his household ties to Scotland – have been created by British clothier Vivienne Westwood, who has beforehand campaigned towards his extradition.
Assange suffered a blow earlier this month when he was denied permission to launch an attraction at Britain’s Supreme Court docket towards a choice to extradite him. Nonetheless, he might nonetheless problem the federal government’s ratification of the extradition.
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