The “small stroke” suffered by the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange at the end of October in the prison where he is being held in Britain, announced today his fiancée Stella Morris.
Morris, who has two boys with Assange, explained that the founder of WikiLeaks suffered a stroke on October 27, when British court begins hearing appeal filed by Washington seeking annulment of decision not to extradite him to US.
Assange has been held in a high-security prison near London for two and a half years following his arrest by British police in April 2019, after he had spent seven years at the embassy of Ecuador.
The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported that 50-year-old Assange suffered a “temporary ischemic attack”, during which the bleeding of a part of his brain temporarily stopped.
This caused him to lose memory, while he has and there are signs of neurological damage. Since then, according to the newspaper, he has been receiving medication.
“I believe that this game of constant failure, in one battle after another, this excessive stress, this caused Julian to have a stroke on October 27,” complained Morris, who said she feared her partner might suffered a more severe stroke.
The revelation about Assange’s state of health came after the US won an appeal for his extradition, as the London High Court ruled on Friday to overturn a previous court ruling.
Assange is going to appeal.
U.S. authorities have charged Assange with 18 counts of leaking WikiLeaks more than 700,000 classified documents on U.S. military and diplomatic activities, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan.
If convicted, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison, a case which his supporters say is a serious attack on press freedom.
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