The founder of the Wikeleaks portal Julian Assange suffered a stroke during a meeting of the UK Supreme Court in the case of its extradition in the United States on October 27, where he was present in the video link from Belmarsha prison. About this his bride Stella Maurice reported Daily Mail.
According to her, during the court session, the 50-year-old Assange had a transit ischemic attack, he did not close the right eyelid, and the memory was fuzzy. The doctor discovered his reaction to the reaction of the pupil when he hit the light, which can speak of nerves damage, said Maurice.
The judge freed him from participating in the meeting, while Assange could not get out of the prison video-based. Now he takes medicines from stroke. Since then, the founder of WikiLeaks “more or less recovered,” said Maurice. However, his health can worsen, she suggested.
US authorities accuse Julian Assange in espionage and hacking computers due to publication on the website of WikiLeaks American service documents on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and diplomatic telegrams 2010-2011. According to investigators, Assange was an accomplice of the defense analyst Chelsea Manning, who violated the Eugene law, hacked computers and published the materials that could harm the computerists of the US Securities. In case of extradition, it faces up to 175 years of imprisonment. In January 2021, the British court refused the United States in the issuance of Assange. He motivated his decision with fears for the mental health of the convict. Later, the US Department of Justice filed an appeal to this decision, insisting on the extradition of the founder of WikiLeaks. High Court of London satisfied the appeal on December 10, 2021.