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The Rubin Report

The Current Condition of Julian Assange | Stella Assange

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News, News Commentary

4.4486 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Stella Assange, wife of Julian Assange, about her husband's current situation in a high-security prison in southeast London; the scandalous reasons that he's been imprisoned since April 11, 2019, for his involvement with Wikileaks; how he is kept locked up for 20 hours a day; his current physical and emotional state; the implications of her husband's case on journalism and free speech; how people can contact their representatives and join initiatives to help free Assange; and much more.

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zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. Okay, I'm here with Stella Assange, the wife of Julian Assange, and I guess the most well the best part to start with

0:45.8

would be that your husband is actually not too far from here right now.

0:49.6

Yeah he's about a 15 minute drive from where we are.

0:54.0

He's near the Thames, but it feels like it's miles away from London when you're there.

0:59.0

Yeah, and he is, I mean he's locked up, that's just the nature of reality.

1:05.0

You mentioned to my producer, I was already, you get to see him twice a week.

1:09.0

And I guess just talk a little bit about his physical and sort of emotional say then we'll get

1:13.4

into obviously the bigger stuff but well not that much is bigger than that I suppose.

1:18.2

Well he's been in this high security prison in southeast London since the 11th of April 2019.

1:27.6

He is locked up in a cell over 20 hours a day.

1:31.3

He gets to go to the yard for up to an hour a day. It's on his wing about 30% of people there

1:40.4

are accused or convicted of murder and you know Julian's not a he

1:47.0

shouldn't be in prison in the first place right he's a journalist he's there

1:50.6

because of what he published but he's there because the United States is trying to extradite him.

1:57.0

I get to see him once or twice a week.

1:59.0

On weekends, I go with our children, we have a four and a six year old and all they know is their father inside this prison space.

2:10.4

They've never been in a different room outside of this prison with their father.

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