Did You Consider the Practical Importance of Getting Involved With Someone Who Is in Prison?

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Did you consider the practical implications of getting involved with someone who is about to possibly be moved into prison? Did you? Did you think about that? Was that a big concern of yours? I think a lot of people would think, you know, even if he's great, why get involved with someone when they're goig to be in prison all the time? Well, that wasn't at all the elm when we got together was four years later. And i don't gret it for a minute. When you love some one, you you just, it's not even an option. Ah, and there was risk, of course, associated with with a being known to be

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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