The CIA Plot To Kill My Husband Julian Assange
May 17, 2022
Julian Assange's wife on the CIA plot to kill her husband in revenge for exposing war crimes and fight to save his life.
The Westminster Magistrates' Court formally approved Julian Assange's extradition to the United States in late April, bringing the WikiLeaks founder one step closer to being sent overseas, where he could face death in prison if convicted on espionage charges filed against him by the US government.
Julian Assange's defence team has filed representations with UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, asking her to block the activist's extradition to the US, Stella Moris, Mr Assange's wife, has announced.
"Defence submissions to Home Secretary @pritipatel have just been filed, arguing why the US extradition of #Assange must be blocked", Morris wrote in a tweet on Tuesday.
"The US and UK are happy to talk about political prisoners abroad but they've created a political prisoner of their own. At every stage the law has been abused in order to victimise Julian. He has been silenced, he has been disappeared. The last time Julian was allowed to attend his own court hearing was in January 2021", Moris said in a video attached to a second tweet about the defence team's plans."
"Julian did nothing wrong. He exposed war crimes - war crimes committed by known individuals. Those who committed the war crimes or are responsible for those war crimes have not been held accountable. Julian is in prison because WikiLeaks is a publisher that specializes in the secrets that states keep the most hidden", Moris added.
Assange's revelations included evidence of US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the institutionalisation of torture, she noted.
"The position of the UK right now is that it will extradite a publisher to the country that conspired to murder him", Moris said, referring to media revelations from last year that the CIA had discussed plans to kidnap or assassinate Assange. "How can the UK government even contemplate the extradition of the man who the US was trying to assassinate?" she asked.
"This is a country plotting to assassinate a journalist because of what he has published. This is precisely what the UK government criticizes in other states. Conspiring to murder a journalist is wrong. It's wrong if Russia does it, and it's wrong if the United States does it too", Moris stressed.
Moris suggested that because the United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court, the only potential accountability it can face for war crimes is through their exposure via WikiLeaks.
"Pointing to US plans to prosecute Assange under the Espionage Act, Moris said that US government's position boils down to the idea that "any person anywhere anywhere is bound by the US Espionage Act. This is a completely absurd and dangerous proposition. Julian is not a US citizen. He's an Australian citizen, who was working as a journalist in the United Kingdom.
