Julian Assange Marries His Fiancee In UK Prison

Distance, imprisonment is never a restriction to express love.  Julian Assange has jmarried his fiancee; Stella Moris at Belmarsh high-security jail in east London under such strict security where they are not allowed to pose for their own wedding pics.

The prison hosted a private ceremony lasting around three hours, with six guests including the couple’s two young sons and Assange’s father John Shipton.

The WikiLeaks founder has been held in the high-security jail ever since as he fights extradition to the US, where he is wanted over an alleged conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information following WikiLeaks’ publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

Assange has always denied wrongdoing and has won support for his case from human rights organizations and journalist groups across the world.

“Today I will go through the gates at the most oppressive high-security prison in the country and be married to a political prisoner,” Moris wrote in The Guardian ahead of her planned nuptials to “the love of my life.”

“This is not a prison wedding, it is a declaration of love and resilience in spite of the prison walls,” she insisted.

The bride-to-be that “every part of this private event is being intensely policed” by authorities for the UK prison, where Assange, 50, has been held since 2019 while US authorities seek his extradition on espionage that could see him spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Their “dispute” with the British government and prison officials included the decision to ban their proposed witnesses because they were journalists.

They were also banned from taking in a photographer because “the prison states that our wedding picture is a security risk because it could end up in social media or the press,” Moris wrote.

“How absurd. What kind of security threat could a wedding picture pose?” she asked, saying her husband was facing “a different set of rules.”

Still, the “torment only makes our love grow stronger,” she declared.

The bride-to-be did, however, pose for photographs in her silvery Vivienne Westwood wedding gown as she arrived at the prison gates with Gabriel and Max, the sons she secretly had with Assange during his seven years hiding from arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.

Westwood — a longtime Assange advocate — also made kilts for the groom-to-be and his male guests in a nod to his Scottish heritage.

Instead, the registrar-led ceremony, only allowed during prison visiting hours, will be attended by four guests, two official witnesses — and two prison wardens.

The couple first met in 2011, when Moris joined Assange’s legal team while he remained holed up in the embassy. Their relationship started in 2015, she said after revealing the two children she’d had with him.

Assange’s big day follows a recent blow in his legal battle when he was denied permission to launch an appeal at Britain’s Supreme Court against a decision to extradite him. However, he could still challenge the government’s ratification of the extradition.

Congratulations Assange and Morris.