Having a Relationship With Someone Imprisoned in Central London

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Julian Assange is locked in a building in central london, which he can't leave. The embassy was his home from 20 12 until the equatorian government changed when it came to power two years later. He had enough privacy to write booksd and promote his books - but also do interviews and have lunch with diplomatic staff. Even though it was an arbitrary confinement because of the politics around it, it was a very interesting place to be in.

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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