Julian Assange and Stella Moris are set to get married today. Image via Twitter @stellamoris1.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will marry his South African-born fiancée Stella Moris today inside a high-security prison in London.
Julian Assange and Stella Moris are set to get married today. Image via Twitter @stellamoris1.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to marry his long-term partner Stella Moris, who hails from South Africa, inside a high-security prison in southeast London on Wednesday 23 March.
Julian Assange, who has been imprisoned in Belmarsh prison since 2019, has been granted permission to marry. He wed his South African-born fiancée, Stella Moris, inside a high-security prison in southeast London today.
The private ceremony will be attended by just four guests – two official witnesses and two security guards. The ceremony will take place during visiting hours at the prison.
The WikiLeaks founder is wanted by US authorities to face trial on 18 counts relating to WikiLeaks’ release of vast troves of confidential US military records and diplomatic cables. Assange denies any wrongdoing but he has been held at Belmarsh prison since 2019.
He was holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London for seven years prior to Belmarsh prison. Assange fathered two children with Moris while living at the embassy. The pair met in 2011 when she started working on his legal team and their relationship began in 2015.
In November 2021, Moris expressed that she and Assange wish to be married before 2022, but the date was later set to 23 March.
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As mentioned above Moris is the mother of Assange’s two children and she hails from South Africa. So, what else do we know about the bride-to-be?
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