WikiLeaks: Assange's partner tweets to Tump, pleads for grace

(ANSA) - LONDON, NOV 26 - The partner of Julian Assange, mother of two children conceived during the years spent refugee by the founder of WikiLeaks at the Ecuador embassy in London, today sent a tweet to Donald Trump to solicit pardon against the Australian activist, who is in the British prison of Belmarsh, unexpected judgment on the controversial extradition request presented by the US authorities.

In the tweet, to which is attached a photo portraying the couple's two children, Max and Gabriel, StellaMoris, a South African lawyer specializing in human rights and former legal advisor to Assange, has for the first time invoked in public a hypothetical measure of clemency for the 48-year-old Australian .

    "These are Julian's children, Max and Gabriel. They need their father. Our family needs to be reunited. I promise you, you take him home for Christmas," the woman wrote to the outgoing president, who on Thanksgiving gave her pardon. Presidential to Michael Flynn, national security adviser, condemned at the time for the alleged lies told to the FBI in the investigation of the so-called Russiagate on its relations with Serghiei Kisliak, former ambassador of Moscow to Washington.

    Assange has been pursued by the United States for years, the object of a hunt carried out by both republican and democratic administrations since WikiLeaks spread - with the collaboration of prestigious international newspapers - mountains of embarrassing confidential documents filtered from overseas archives and related to crimes. of war committed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

   The first British verdict on his extradition is expected in early January and the general expectation is that the judicial and political authorities in London will eventually bow to the great American ally.

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