LONDON — The associate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange mentioned on Friday his life is in peril whereas he's held in a London jail throughout the coronavirus lockdown.
Assange is combating a request by the US to extradite him to face trial for conspiring to hack authorities computer systems and espionage, however hearings scheduled for later this month won't go forward due to the lockdown.
“The lifetime of my associate, Julian Assange, is at extreme threat. He's on remand at HMP Belmarsh, and COVID-19 is spreading inside its partitions,” Stella Morris, who has two youngsters with Assange, mentioned in an announcement.
“Julian must be launched now. For him, for our household, and for the society all of us need our kids to develop up in.”
Morris, a lawyer, mentioned final month that she met Assange in 2011 on the Ecuadorian embassy in London the place he spent seven years avoiding arrest by British police.
Assange and WikiLeaks enraged the U.S. authorities a decade in the past by publishing hundreds of secret American paperwork. Assange’s supporters see him as a champion of free speech exposing abuses of energy and hypocrisy by Washington.
The U.S. authorities say he's needed not as a result of he embarrassed them however as a result of he endangered informants, dissidents and rights activists in a number of nations, together with Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan by unlawful actions.
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