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Married to the truth: Is Julian Assange’s incarceration coming to an end?

After seven years confined to the Ecuadorian embassy, and imprisoned since 2019, the WikiLeaks founder is struggling with poor physical and mental health, his wife Stella tells this newspaper in an interview. However, his nomination for this year’s Sakharov Prize for human rights suggests the EU may take a more robust stance on his incarceration

Julian and Stella Assange: ‘The main game is the UK appeal now, but there is an option of the European Court of Human Rights if all other routes are exhausted,’ Stella Assange said. Photo: Camera Press/Andy Gotts

In March 2022, Stella Moris became Stella Assange in a wedding ceremony at Belmarsh prison in London, where her now husband Julian, the WikiLeaks founder, has been imprisoned since 2019.

“We were only allowed six guests in Belmarsh. Initially we wanted two witnesses, but they were rejected on the basis that they were friends who happened to be journalists. We weren’t allowed our own photographer, but one of the guards who takes pictures of cell raids took photos for us. Julian joked that our wedding pictures would look like a cell raid,” Stella Assange told the Business Post.