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May 2022
23m 37s

Stella Moris: Will Julian Assange be ext...

Bbc World Service
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Stephen Sackur speaks to lawyer Stella Moris, wife of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and mother of two of his children. The British government is about to decide whether to extradite him to the United States to face espionage charges. With his fate on the line, why is Assange such a polarising figure?

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