The Process in Sweden Was Extremely Irregular From the Start

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Do you think in retrospect, that he made the right call? There has been an extremely uncritical a approach to what happened and what was being done to julian. Part of it is because there was some antagonism with him and wickileek in the media and so on. The process in sweden was extremely irregular from the start. And once wichilik had started publishing the cables, the roch and afghan war diaries and so on, extremely exposed.

Freddie Sayers meets Stella Moris, lawyer and wife of Julian Assange.

The case of Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder who published huge troves of sensitive government documents and classified military logs, has been going on for over a decade. During that time Assange has been under house arrest, hidden from extradition inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London and since 2019 has been held in Belmarsh prison. During that time, he has married and had two children with a lawyer called Stella Moris. Moris first met Assange as a young lawyer working on his case, but is now a campaigner for his acquittal and an activist for press freedom.

Will Assange be remembered as a pioneer of the free internet or as one of its victims? With his extradition case looming, UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers met Stella Moris to hear her case for her husband, Julian Assange.

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