Stella Morris
https://twitter.com/StellaMoris1/status/1469796539115708416Julian
#Assange suffered a stroke on the first day of the High Court appeal hearing on October 27th.
Julian Assange has a stroke in Belmarsh prison: Fiancée blames extreme stress | Daily Mail Onlinehttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10300037/Julian-Assange-stroke-Belmarsh-prison-Fianc-e-blames-extreme-stress.html'It must have been horrendous hearing a High Court appeal in which you can't participate, which is discussing your mental health and your risk of suicide and in which the US is arguing you are making it all up.
'He had to sit through all this when he should have been excused. He was in a truly terrible state. His eyes were out of synch, his right eyelid would not close, his memory was blurry.'
Assange was examined by a doctor, who found a delayed pupil response when a light was shone into one eye – a sign of potential nerve damage.
Ms Moris and Assange have two sons, Gabriel, four, and Max, two, and have been engaged for five years. She said he had 'more or less' recovered – but she fears the attack shows his health is failing.
She visited him for around an hour yesterday, taking the children to see him in a prison hall shared by dozens of inmates and their loved ones.
She said Assange was distressed about being kept from his family, adding: 'He finds the prospect of a third Christmas in prison difficult.'