Julian Assange's lawyer revealed in an interview with the British newspaper "Mail on Sunday" today, Sunday, that the founder of WikiLeaks had two children, including a refugee, at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
South African lawyer Stella Morris, 37, said the Australian - whom the United States has requested to extradite him for trial for espionage - is the father of her two-year-old and one-year-old sons.
The British newspaper published on its website pictures of Assange with his two sons, and an interview with Stella Morris, who said that she "fell in love" with Julian Assange five years ago, and that they intended to marry.
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The lawyer explained that she chose to reveal the presence of the two children, Gabriel and Max, because she "fears that Assange's life will be in danger if he stays in Belmarsh" the prison, which is subject to strict security measures in the British capital, due to the outbreak of the Corona virus.
The British judiciary had refused at the end of last March to release Assange (48 years old) even if he was under judicial supervision, saying that there are "serious reasons to believe" that he may not meet the court summons in the future.
In a related context, WikiLeaks wrote in a tweet on Twitter that Assange's friend, "the mother of two young children, calls on the UK government to release him and other vulnerable prisoners, while the new Corona virus causes damage in prisons."
It appears that the relationship between Assange and his lawyer started in 2015, and their first son was born the following year, and the newspaper said that the Australian followed the birth of his two sons through the video and was able to meet his son Gabriel in the embassy he was taken in secret, adding that the two British children visited their father in prison.
It is noteworthy that the British judiciary had suspended until May 18 next year the consideration of a request to extradite the founder of WikiLeaks, the supplements in the United States for publication as of 2010, more than 700,000 classified documents on American military and diplomatic activities, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Assange was arrested in April 2019, seven years after his asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, after he violated the conditions of conditional freedom.