Wikileaks founder Julian Assange suffered a minor stroke in prison at the end of October, according to a media report. His fiancée Stella Moris blames the extreme stress caused by the fight against extradition to the United States.
Julian Assange is said to have suffered a stroke on October 27, according to a report in the British newspaper “The Mail on Sunday”. The 50-year-old had a drooping right eyelid, memory problems and signs of neurological damage.
On October 27, the extradition proceedings against the native Australian continued in an appeals court. Assange appeared at the time during the hearing surprisingly via video switch to follow the hearing from prison, after his lawyer had previously apologized for him. The 50-year-old’s medication had been re-dosed and he felt that his health was not in a position to follow the procedure, it said at the time.
Stella Moris, the fiancée of Julian Assange, is quoted as saying that she feared this mini-stroke heralded a major one. She herself shared the link to the report on Twitter. “He has to be freed. Now,” she wrote.
Julian Assange faces up to 175 years imprisonment in the USA
Julian Assange has been in the maximum security Belmarsh Prison for over two years. The US judiciary is trying to extradite him so that he can be tried on charges of espionage. He is accused of stealing and publishing secret material from US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan with whistleblower Chelsea Manning. He faces up to 175 years imprisonment in the United States.
The London Court of Appeal lifted the extradition ban to the United States on Friday. Assange must now expect to be extradited to the United States after all. Assange’s defense attorneys announced that they would appeal the decision.
“His imprisonment has had a catastrophic effect on his health,” Stella Moris told the PA news agency on Sunday. The US government planned to kill him and found a way to do it: get the British state to play the executioner.
Source From: Stern
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