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    Partner calls for his release Archived Message

    Posted by margo on May 4, 2020, 2:39 pm, in reply to "Assange: Today's case hearing"

    Assange's partner Stella is a South African-born lawyer who speaks fluent Spanish and Swedish and has thus been of help in accessing Swedish and Spanish documents. Other women in Assange's life with South African connections: (a) South African FOIA lawyer Estelle Dehon who helped expose the damning UK-Swedish emails and (b) Judge Vanessa Baraitser, daughter of privileged South African emigrees. Baraitser threatened to expose/dox Stella's name and the names of her and Julian's two toddlers at a previous hearing, so Stella decided to pre-empt that by breaking her carefully-guarded anonymity on her own terms, recently. Baraitser felt it was acceptable to reveal the names of the two children "because they are not of school-going age": this despite being told how many death threats (to himself and his family) Assange has received over the years

    Stella Moris has called for her fiancee and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be released from a UK prison


    SBS -- THE FIANCEE of Julian Assange has appealed for the WikiLeaks founder to be freed in order to restore the public's faith in "mature democracy".

    Stella Moris penned an opinion piece recounting her vivid childhood memories of Botswana during South Africa's deadly raid on the capital Gaborone in June 1985.

    The 37-year-old said half of the 12 people killed by Apartheid government forces were civilian activists and not African National Congress fighters.

    "I have absorbed my parents' vivid memories of the raid," Ms Moris wrote in Spanish newspaper El Pais.

    "If that terrible night shaped my perspective of the world, the incarceration of the father of my children will surely mark theirs."

    US once considered poisoning Julian Assange, court told

    She then detailed the harassment they faced when Mr Assange was living the Ecuadorian embassy.

    Ms Moris said a Spanish security firm spied on them and tried to steal their son Gabriel's nappy for a paternity test.

    The same firm also had plans to poison or abduct Mr Assange, she said.

    "None of this information is surprising to me but as a parent I ponder how to manage it," she wrote.

    "I want our children to grow up with the clarity of conviction that I had as a little girl. Peril lay beyond the South African border. I want them to believe that inequitable treatment is not tolerated in mature democracies."

    Ms Moris said if she and her sons were targets of harassment then nothing was off-limits.

    She said US secretary of state Mike Pompeo had also in April threatened the families of International Criminal Court Lawyers who investigating alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan.

    "The same crimes that Julian exposed through WikiLeaks, and which the US wants to imprison him over," she said.

    "Julian needs to be released now. For him, for our family, and for the society we all want our children to grow up in."..../ continues




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