When you met julian ya, what was your first impression of him? Ah, i mean, he's brilliant and a unusual in his interpersonal interactions. And at the same time, like a very, ah, like a rare creature. It took a long time for me to get know julian as a person, but my first impression was, in a way, ike already knew him, because i had seen him. I wouldn't say i was a supporter meno, like a campaigning or going to protest or anything like that. I was interested in the in the issue. He has this kind of curiosity for, ah, people and and things. So it was part
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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