Julian Assange’s wife confirmed this Monday at a press conference, at the Geneva Press Club, that her husband’s health “continues to decline”, whereupon she asked the international community for help to free the WikiLeaks founder before his extradition to the US. , for which he could face up to 175 years in prison.

“Obviously, his physical health is deteriorating and I’m very worried that anything could happen,” said Stella Assange.

The woman stressed that Assange “has not been a free man since 2010”, and recalled that for the last seven years he had been confined to his 110-square-metre apartment and was now in a high-security prison.

“He had a mild stroke in October 2021. He is currently on medication,” he added.

Stella called on the world community to help Assange and work to get him released.

“The Julian case is a case that must be resolved by the international community. It must not fall between the cracks, for he is acting accordingly […] charter mandate [de Derechos Humanos] UN,” said the wife.

The woman said the Assange case showed that “journalisting is a dying or dying profession, unless the negative trend” of arrests and mistreatment of journalists can be reversed.

“In Julian’s case, it is foolish to expect things to be the way they always are. Because if there are rules, patterns, in Julian’s case, to expect the unexpected, for the rules to be bent or broken.” , said Stella when speaking about the rejection of Assange’s appeal against an extradition order to the US by a British court.

Lawyers for the high-profile journalist submitted a request for judicial review to the British Supreme Court and announced that if rejected, they would appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. Meanwhile, Stella expressed concern that, since Brexit, “the UK has become very hostile to the European Court of Human Rights.”

Julian Assange has been imprisoned since April 2019 in Britain’s maximum security Belmarsh prison, where he was held after the then Ecuadorian President, Lenín Moreno, authorized his arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where the journalist lives. seven years, since June 2012.

Assange was indicted in the US over the publication of hundreds of thousands of pages of classified military documents and classified diplomatic cables about that country’s activities in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, distributed by his portal, WikiLeaks. A US court brought a total of 18 charges against Assange under the Espionage Act, and sought him 175 years in prison.