Julian Assange's wife has warned that the WikiLeaks founder "will die" if he is extradited to the US, ahead of his High Court appeal next week.At a media briefing in central London on Thursday morning, Stella Assange said her husband could be on a plane to the US "within days".Assange has been in Belmarsh prison in south-east London since he was removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in 2019 where he was given political asylum, as he fights Washington's attempts to extradite him to face charges und

Julian Assange's wife has warned that the WikiLeaks founder "will die" if he is extradited to the US, ahead of his High Court appeal next week.At a media briefing in central London on Thursday morning, Stella Assange said her husband could be on a plane to the US "within days".Assange has been in Belmarsh prison in south-east London since he was removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in 2019 where he was given political asylum, as he fights Washington's attempts to extradite him to face charges under its espionage act.