Wikileaks founder Julian Assange gets married in Belmarsh prison

The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, married his long-term partner, Stella Moris on Wednesday while imprisoned in a high-security facility in London.

Assange, 50, has been held in the prison since 2019, but the two were officially given permission to marry last year, and the ceremony was attended by four guests, two witnesses, and two guards.

Assange has been held in the facility while U.S. authorities look to extradite him so that he can face trial for espionage charges. He is wanted as a criminal because he apparently published thousands of classified documents pertaining to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, but Assange denies that he did anything wrong. Just this month, the U.K. Supreme Court blocked his latest appeal against extradition.

Moris, a 38-year-old lawyer, was received by a crowd of supporters once she left the ceremony that took place in southeast London. The supporters tossed confetti and shouted “congratulations” as well as “free Julian Assange.”

The bride donned a wedding dress that had been designed by Dame Vivienne Westwood, who has also been vocal in campaigning against Assange’s extradition. “I am very happy and very sad,” Moris said to the crowd. “I love Julian with all my heart, and I wish he were here.”

She added that her husband’s detention has been “cruel and inhuman.” The couple has been together since 2015, and they have two children together.

Assange is currently facing an 18-count indictment from the U.S. government, accusing him of conspiring to hack military databases in order to obtain sensitive information relating to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. That information was then published on Assange’s Wikileaks site.