“What we are going through is inhumane. He is the most incredible person in the world and he should be released. But our love will sustain us,” added the lawyer, who joined Assange’s defense in 2011.
The veil of her silver-gray dress, designed by the British Vivienne Westwood, who has supported Assange’s cause for years, had embroidered words such as “free”, “tumultuous”, “noble”.
Moris, 38, arrived at the prison accompanied by her mother; her fiancé’s father and brother, John and Gabriel Shipton; and her children, Gabriel, 4, and Max, 2, born when Assange was taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
According to the lawyer, 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 “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 in an article published by The Guardian, comparing this “logic of making a person disappear while waiting be forgotten” with “what Soviet Russia was doing”.
The 50-year-old groom and the couple’s two children wore kilts, in honor of the Australian’s family origins.
The lawyer said in the days leading up to the wedding that they would bear the cost and asked those who wanted to give her a gift to offer a donation to her campaign to get him out of prison or to hang signs in favor of his release in their neighborhoods.
Assange has been held in Belmarsh prison since his arrest in 2019 at the Ecuadorian embassy in London when President Lenin Moreno withdrew the protection that his predecessor Rafael Correa had given him in 2012.
The activist fights 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.
After losing her last resort, the British Minister of the Interior, Priti Patel, must now decide whether to authorize the delivery of the journalist, although her lawyers are considering appealing other aspects of the case.
Assange has become a foe for press freedom advocates, who accuse the United States of trying to silence relevant security information, but US authorities say he is a hacker and endangered the lives of whistleblowers by publishing the full unedited documents.
“This is the most important battle of our time for press freedom and if we lose it it will be devastating not only for Julian and his family but for us,” said Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist Chris Hedges, one of the protesters waiting at Belmarsh Gate.
If convicted of espionage in the United States, Assange could be sentenced to 175 years in prison.
Source: Ambito
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