Gabriel Shipton said to himself “very worried about what hangs over Julian’s head that only increases the pressure“.”We live in fear that he will not hold or that he will die altogether during this process.“judicial extradition, he told AFP. Fears already expressed by the brother of Julian Assange and his fiancee Stella Moris. Mum of two children with the Australian activist, she told the Mail on Sunday that he had suffered at the end of October from a “micro stroke” in prison.
The Australian, ex-companion of Pamela Anderson, has been held in a high security prison near London since his arrest by British police in April 2019 after spending seven years at the London Embassy in Ecuador where he is was a refugee while on bail. For his brother, Julian Assange “isn’t the man he was when it all started” corn “he remains strong and combative“.
Relatives and supporters of the founder of WikiLeaks speak out after a major victory on Friday for the United States in their battle to obtain his extradition of the founder of WikiLeaks, the British High Court overturning a first instance decision which opposed it. Julian Assange intends, however, to appeal to the Supreme Court. The United States accuses him of having disseminated, as of 2010, more than 700,000 classified documents on American military and diplomatic activities, in particular in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prosecuted in particular for espionage, he faces up to 175 years in prison in a case which, according to his supporters, represents an extremely serious attack on press freedom.