Assange fathered two children while holed up in embassy, lawyer says
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fathered two children with
a lawyer who was representing him while he was holed up in the Ecuadorian
embassy in London fighting extradition, the lawyer told a British newspaper on
Sunday.
The Mail on Sunday said 37-year-old South African lawyer Stella
Morris has been engaged to Assange since 2017. The couple have two sons, aged 1
and 2, both conceived while Assange was in the embassy and kept secret from
media covering his case and intelligence agencies monitoring his activity, the
paper said.
It showed pictures of Assange with a baby, identified as the
older son, who it said had been smuggled into the embassy to meet him. Both of
the children are British citizens, it said. Assange had watched the births on a
video link.
The Australian-born Assange was dragged out of the embassy
last year after a seven-year standoff, and is now jailed in Britain fighting
extradition to the United States on computer hacking and espionage charges. His
supporters say the U.S. case against him is political and he cannot receive a
fair trial.
Morris said she had chosen to speak out now because she was
worried about his susceptibility to the coronavirus in jail.
"I love Julian deeply and I am looking forward to
marrying him," the paper quoted her as saying.
"Over the past five years I have discovered that love
makes the most intolerable circumstances seem bearable but this is different –
I am now terrified I will not see him alive again."
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