Julian Assange has been granted permission to marry his partner Stella Moris in Belmarsh prison, the BBC has been told.
The Wikileaks founder and Ms Moris have two sons together, who she said were conceived while he was living inside London’s Ecuadorean embassy.
The prison service said Mr Assange’s application was “considered in the usual way by the prison governor”.
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Ms Moris told PA she was “relieved that reason [had] prevailed”.
She added: “I hope there will be no further interference with our marriage.”
Inmates are entitled to apply to be married in prison under the Marriages Act 1983 and where applications are granted, they must meet the full costs of the marriage, with no taxpayer help.
In an interview with the Mail on Sunday last year, Ms Moris, a South African-born lawyer, revealed that she had been in a relationship with Mr Assange since 2015 and had been raising their two young sons on her own.
In a video posted on Wikileaks’ YouTube account, she said she had met Mr Assange in 2011 when she joined his legal team.
Ms Moris added that she had visited him in the embassy almost every day and had “got to know Julian very well”.
The couple fell in love in 2015 and got engaged two years later.
Ms Moris said that Mr Assange had watched both boys being born via video link and they had visited their father at the embassy. (BBC)
