Wikileaks: Stella Moris hopes Switzerland will commit to Julian Assange

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As “headquarters of the UN Human Rights Council,” Switzerland is in a unique position to work for her husband’s release, Moris-Assange told the Keystone-SDA news agency on Monday during an appearance at the “Club suisse de la presse” in Geneva.

Moris-Assange called her husband a “hostage”. He has done nothing but publish truthful information about war crimes and torture. She described his health as poor.

As Moris-Assange further explained, she expects the pending decision on the appeal against the extradition order to be made soon. There are fears that Britain will soon implement the extradition.

The only positive thing about them is the great support they received, from simple citizens’ movements to heads of state. In June, she also met the Pope. “It was a generous step by the Pope to support our family in this way.”

Assange has been held in Belmarsh maximum security prison since his arrest in April 2019. Before that, he evaded law enforcement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for years. The Australian government is also calling for an end to the prosecution of Assange.

The legal wrangling over Assange has been going on for years. The US justice wants to take him to court on charges of espionage. If convicted, he faces up to 175 years in prison.

Assange is accused of stealing and publishing secret materials from US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan along with whistleblower Chelsea Manning, endangering the lives of US informants. Supporters see Assange as a journalist who exposed war crimes.

(SDA)

Source: Blick