This is where he held press conferences to discuss the release of the Afghan war logs, a compendium of more than 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010, and described by the Guardian at the time as the biggest intelligence leak in history. We meet at the Frontline Club, the London private members’ hotel and bar for journalists, and the scene of Assange’s early triumphs. How do you sit down and have a martini and discuss this with your best friends?” “I was in an embassy where the authorities were hostile to Julian and threatening to throw him out where there was a security company secretly working for the CIA where I was told not to bring my baby in because it wasn’t safe where my mom was followed. Moris talks out of the side of her mouth, barely moving her lips, like a character in a 1950s film noir. If Collateral Murder hadn’t been published, those innocent people who were mown down in a war crime would have for ever remained in terms of the official story ‘enemy combatants’ They had managed to keep their relationship from the public for six years. Even by Assange’s standards, it was an astonishing revelation.
The story came out only because Assange had tried to secure bail with his new family at Moris’s home. By then, Gabriel was almost three and Max was one. “I couldn’t explain the situation to friends because my circumstances had become quite unrelatable.” It emerged last April that Moris and Assange had two children while he was in hiding at the embassy. Her story had simply become too fantastical – the kind you might find in a melodramatic spy novel. Moris says there is another reason she couldn’t tell people about her relationship with Assange, who has spent the past 11 years in captivity of one kind or another – holed up in a Norfolk stately home, the Ecuadorian embassy, and Belmarsh.
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If Assange loses, Moris believes the very concept of a free press will be under threat. In a couple of weeks at the Royal Courts of Justice, the US government will appeal against an earlier decision not to send Assange to America. Now she is fighting for his life and her future. A defiance and certainty not unlike that shown by her fiance, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the world’s most famous publisher of classified information. And yet there is such defiance in her language, such certainty in the rightness of her cause. The pauses between words are sometimes so long, you fear she’s having a breakdown mid-sentence. Her face is pale, her voice little more than a whisper, and she barely makes eye contact. And finally revealing all to the world – but only to help prevent him being extradited from Belmarsh prison in London to America where he faces a jail sentence of up to 175 years under the Espionage Act. Then having his children, and not being able to confide in your closest friends who the father is because it may endanger the family. Imagine meeting the love of your life but not being able to tell a soul.