The wife of Julian Assange, Stella Assangesaid this Tuesday that she feels “euphoric” after the agreement reached between the Australian activist and the justice of USA and that the “priority” now is for her husband to “regain his health.”
In statements to the British radio station BBC Radio 4, the lawyer confessed that, right now, she feels “a whirlwind of emotions” after the release of Assange of the British high-security Belmarsh prison after the agreement reached with Washington.
“I feel a whirlwind of emotions. I’m elated. Frankly, it’s unbelievable. It’s like it’s not real,” she said. Stella Assangewhich revealed that until the last 24 hours, they weren’t “really sure it was really happening.”
The wife of the former Australian hacker also indicated that she has not yet told her two young children that their father has been released and that they are sharing information with them “gradually” because it is a delicate situation.
“They have never seen him outside Belmarsh (prison) and their entire interaction has taken place inside a visiting room for just over an hour, in a very restrictive manner, where you could not walk,” he recalled.
She also noted that she has not yet had the “opportunity” to have “a long conversation” with her husband after the latest events, but that “the priority now is that Julian get healthy again; “It’s been in a terrible state for the last five years, with no contact with nature.”
“Our wish now is to have time and privacy to begin this new chapter,” he said.
About the release of the founder of WikiLeaks, Stella Assange commented that an “agreement in principle” had been reached between her husband and the Department of Justice of USA.
“And this has to be signed by a judge in these Mariana Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, where he is going to go, but he is right now in Bangkok (where his plane landed to refuel),” he said.
Once that agreement is signed by a magistrate, then it will be “formally real,” according to Stella, who admitted that due to the agreement she is “limited” in terms of what she can say right now about the case.
WikiLeaksthe portal founded by the activist, posted images on its social networks of Assange boarding a plane yesterday afternoon at the British Stansted airport.
The founder of Wikileaks52, is scheduled to appear in a Mariana Islands court on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. local time (23:00 GMT Tuesday) and plead. guilty of the accusations against him before traveling to Australia after more than 12 years of litigation.
Assange reached an agreement with the United States by which he will plead guilty to the crimes for leaking secrets and a sentence of 62 months in prison will be set, equivalent to the time he has already served in the high security prison in United Kingdom.
He is already out on bail.
The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assangewas shown in an image published by Wikileaks in X as his plane approaches Bangkok airport for a stopover with the message “Getting closer to freedom.”
According to the agreement reached with the Department of Justice, Assange52, of Australian nationality, will plead guilty to a single count of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified information, allowing him to return to Australia and will put an end to a long judicial saga due to the leak of classified documents.
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