"The US and UK are happy to talk about political prisoners abroad but they've created a political prisoner of their own. At every stage the law has been abused in order to victimise Julian. He has been silenced, he has been disappeared. The last time Julian was allowed to attend his own court hearing was in January 2021", Moris said in a video attached to a second tweet about the defence team's plans.
"The position of the UK right now is that it will extradite a publisher to the country that conspired to murder him", Moris said, referring to media revelations from last year that the CIA had discussed plans to kidnap or assassinate Assange. "How can the UK government even contemplate the extradition of the man who the US was trying to assassinate?" she asked.
Pointing to US plans to prosecute Assange under the Espionage Act, Moris said that US government's position boils down to the idea that "any person anywhere anywhere is bound by the US Espionage Act. This is a completely absurd and dangerous proposition. Julian is not a US citizen. He's an Australian citizen, who was working as a journalist in the United Kingdom. He owes no allegiance to the US government. He received information from a source - Chelsea Manning, and he published it. That's all he did. And now the United States is threatening Julian with a life sentence - 175 years. It advances the absurd notion that a country can limit press freedom beyond its borders".