Last week, the British Supreme Court denied him the possibility of appealing the delivery, of 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. Belt.
In November they announced their engagement and obtained permission to marry in Belmarsh prison, south of the capital.
“This is not a prison wedding, this is a declaration of love and resistance despite prison walls, despite political persecution, despite arbitrary detention, despite the harm and harassment inflicted on Julian and our family”the woman wrote in an article published on Wednesday by the British leftist newspaper The Guardian.
Moris denounced that the prison authorities rejected the proposed witnesses -who are journalists- and the photographer -who also works for the press-, despite the fact that they were going to attend the ceremony “in a private capacity.”
“They want Julian to remain invisible to the public at all costs, including on his wedding day, and especially on his wedding day”he wrote, comparing this “logic of making a person disappear in the hope that they will be forgotten” with “what Soviet Russia was doing”.
The dress of the bride, a young lawyer who joined Assange’s defense team in 2011, was designed by legendary British designer Vivienne Westwood, 80, a longtime supporter of Assange’s cause.
The Australian will wear a Scottish skirt, in a nod to his ancestors.
The guests will have to leave immediately after the ceremony, but dressed in their best clothes, dozens of supporters plan to gather in front of the prison, where Moris – who asked for donations for legal expenses instead of gifts – will cut a cake and make a speech.
Assange has become a workhorse for the press freedom advocates, which accuse Washington of trying to silence relevant security information. But the US authorities claim that he is not a journalist but a hacker and he endangered the lives of many informants by publishing the full documents without editing them first.
If convicted of espionage in the United States, Assange could be sentenced to 175 years in prison.
His defense, coordinated by former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, argued that he could commit suicide if exposed to the US prison system. And at first he managed to get the British justice to agree with him.
But the US executive appealed and convinced the judges that he would be held in good conditions, with adequate psychological treatment, and obtained the go-ahead for his delivery.
“We will exhaust all national and international resources to defend those who have not committed any crime and have heroically and courageously resisted persecution for more than eleven years for defending freedom of expression and access to information,” Garzón said, suggesting that his battle against extradition may not end here.
Source: Ambito
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