(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 12 - Julian Assange had a mini-stroke in his cell at the end of October, according to Stella Moris, the companion of the founder of Wikileaks in prison in Great Britain and who risks being extradited to the United States where a trial for espionage for the online dissemination of thousands of classified documents and emails on US military and diplomatic activity.
The incident, which occurred on October 27, was a transient ischemic episode, during which blood flow to part of the brain of Assange, 50, was briefly interrupted. 2019 after spending more than seven years locked inside the Ecuadorian embassy.
"I think this chess match, post-battle battle, this extreme stress was the cause of this Julian cerebral vascular accident," Moris said.
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