Posted on 04/26/2025 1:31:52 PM PDT by bitt
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was among the mourners attending Pope Francis’s funeral in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City, on Saturday. Pope Francis had been a supporter of Assange and had even suggested giving him asylum in the Vatican.
“Now Julian is free, we have all come to Rome to express our family’s gratitude for the Pope’s support during Julian’s persecution. Our children and I had the honor of meeting Pope Francis in June 2023 to discuss how to free Julian from Belmarsh prison. Francis wrote to Julian in… pic.twitter.com/1B4iNp31Is
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 26, 2025
“Now Julian is free, we have all come to Rome to express our family’s gratitude for the Pope’s support during Julian’s persecution. Our children and I had the honor of meeting Pope Francis in June 2023 to discuss how to free Julian from Belmarsh prison. Francis wrote to Julian in prison and even proposed to grant him asylum at the Vatican,” Assange’s wife Stella said in a statement posted to X by the official Wikileaks account.
Assange was freed from Belmarsh prison last year after reaching a plea deal with the United States Justice Department. He had been imprisoned in the UK’s Belmarsh prison for five years after spending seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy with questionable protection of political asylum.
In March 2021, while he was still imprisoned, Pope Francis sent a personal letter to Assange in Belmarsh Prison, which the prison chaplain delivered on Palm Sunday.
Assange’s wife, Stella, expressed her gratitude to “the many Catholics and other Christians campaigning for his freedom” in a post on X about the letter.
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Forgot about him. Guess too much going on in the world.
Anti pope, that did much damage.
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