Assange's extradition case breaks through again, and his fiancée has been exposed to the target of the CIA assassination

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, held an appeal hearing on the extradition of the United States on the 27th. A day earlier, Australian media had exposed Assange's fiancée, Stella Moris, who had claimed to be the target of an assassination by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Central News Agency reported that the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age published the same report on the 26th, and Assange's fiancée Morris said that during Assange's asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in the UK, she was worried that she would be assassinated or beaten by the CIA.

Morris called her Assange's closest confidant, and was clearly the target of the CIA. She believes the CIA tried to force Assange to leave the Ecuadorian embassy by dealing with her, allowing British authorities to detain him in Belmarsh prison in London.

Morris stressed that the U.S. government had planned to assassinate Assange, who was an Australian citizen, and that the Australian government must keep him safe.

According to the British newspaper The Guardian, Morris was born in South Africa and was originally Assange's lawyer. The two began dating in 2014 and became engaged in 2017 with two sons.

Morris has previously said that he is "closely watched by the CIA", and the New York Post also reported on the 16th of this month with the title of "Assange's former secret lover Morris described a grotesque world full of transnational conspiracies and personal paranoia in an interview."

But Yahoo News reported on Sept. 26 interviewing 30 former U.S. officials on behem that the CIA feared that Assange might accept a russian agent's arrangement to travel to Moscow, where he plotted to kidnap or even assassinate Assange, who was at ecuador's embassy in Britain at the time, in 2017. The report also pointed out that according to the CIA's plan, CIA agents even broke out in a gun battle with Russian agents in the streets of London.

Yahoo's report was denied by Mike Pompeo, former U.S. secretary of state and former CIA director.

Rep. Julian Hill of The Australian Labour Party said Yahoo was a reliable medium and that the U.S. government must respond to the reports. Hill stressed that the report revealed that Australia's ally, the United States, planned to carry out the assassination operation across borders, and the Australian government could not "pretend that nothing happened" and must question the United States.

According to the latest reports from the Sydney Morning Herald and The Melbourne Times, Morris does not believe that Assange's trip to Russia would be safer than staying in Britain or Australia. She believes that the British and Australian governments need to guarantee her and Assange's "right to life" and the whole family.

Morris participated in a protest in London on the 23rd, calling for Assange's release. (Image source: Reuters)

Assange, 50, was born in Australia and founded WikiLeaks in 2006. The site exposed 500,000 secret documents about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2010, revealing scandals about the abuse of prisoners by the U.S. military. The U.S. government began to hunt down Assange. In November 2010, Assange was wanted by Swedish prosecutors on rape charges; in December of the same year, Assange, who was in the United Kingdom, turned himself in to the London police; in 2011, a British court ruled that Assange must be extradited to Sweden for trial, but Assange denied all charges; in 2012, he hid in the Ecuadorian embassy in the United Kingdom while on bail; in December 2017, Ecuador granted Assange Ecuadorian citizenship, but in April 2019, Ecuador "invited Assange out" of the embassy. The British police then arrested Assange and held him in Belmash Prison to this day. In May of that year, the United States charged Assange with 18 counts and demanded that he be extradited to the United States. Assange is said to face up to 175 years in prison.

In January, a British court rejected a U.S. request to extradite Assange, but the court then accepted an appeal from the U.S. government, and an appeal hearing began on the 27th of this month.

One of the two judges hearing the appeal is Lord Ian Burnett, chief justice of England and Wales, the Associated Press reported. The hearing is expected to take place via video link for two days. The trial is expected to last for several weeks, and even a ruling will not be final, as the losing party can continue to appeal to the UK Supreme Court. (End)