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Tanuki

(14,922 posts)
Sat Nov 13, 2021, 12:27 PM Nov 2021

I didn't realize Assange had fathered 2 children while in prison.

I thought he was portrayed as lonely and moping around with only a cat for company, and even that taken away when he failed to keep the cat box tidy.


https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/nov/11/julian-assange-allowed-to-marry-partner-stella-moris-in-jail

..."He was granted permission to marry his partner Stella Moris after applying to the prison governor.

A Prison Service spokesperson said: “Mr Assange’s application was received, considered and processed in the usual way by the prison governor, as for any other prisoner.”

The couple, who met when Assange was living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, have two children.
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The couple have been engaged for a number of years and have been trying to get married despite the legal action. Their sons Gabriel, four, and Max, two, are British citizens."...(more)

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