Julian Assange has been a free man for almost four weeks now – and is reunited with his wife and sons in Australia. Now Assange’s wife has published her first photo from a completely normal family trip.
It’s been almost a month since Julian Assange was released – and was able to return home to Australia. Now the Wikileaks founder has posted a photo of his family on social media for the first time. The picture shows the couple and their two sons laughing and relaxing on the beach. Assange is wearing a typical Australian hat and is holding his wife in his arms. “Family photo!” Stella Assange wrote.
The Wikileaks founder was surprisingly released at the end of June after 14 years of legal wrangling. A US court on the Mariana Island of Saipan – a US territory in the Western Pacific – had previously approved a deal between the Australian and the American judiciary in connection with espionage allegations.
Julian Assange asks for respect for his privacy
Julian Assange had never met his wife in freedom until he arrived in Canberra. The relationship between the two only began during his time in the Ecuadorian embassy, where he had been holed up for seven years. He was arrested there in 2019 and the US demanded his extradition. In 2022, the couple married in Belmarsh Prison in London.
Stella Assange expressed concern about her husband’s health after his return from years of imprisonment in a tiny cell. She asked that the family be given time and that their privacy be respected. To date, Assange has not made any public statements.
From 2010 onwards, Wikileaks published secret material from US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan by whistleblower Chelsea Manning. The publication provided deep insights into US operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, including questionable operations and war crimes – and attracted a great deal of attention around the world. But the US accuses Assange of putting the lives of US informants in danger.
Source: Stern
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