Common Dreams The “U.K. is literally torturing him to death,” said one human rights expert.
Stella Moris, the fiancée of Julian Assange, reiterated demands for his freedom as she revealed Saturday that the WikiLeaks founder suffered a mini-stroke in October.
“Julian Assange suffered a stroke on the first day of the High Court appeal hearing on October 27th,” Moris said in a tweet.
She shared a new Daily Mail report in which she put blame for the event on “the constant chess game, battle after battle, the extreme stress” that Assange, who’s been imprisoned at a maximum security prison in London since 2019, continues to endure as the U.S. government seeks to extradite and prosecute him under the Espionage Act for publishing classified information that exposed American war crimes.
