Julian Assange sees Pope Francis as a moral protection

From the current edition of The Tablet

Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, has described Pope Francis as a “massive moral protection” after she met him in the Vatican.  “He’s been following the case, and he understands the situation is critical,” she told Christopher Lamb last week. “We discussed the way in which political prosecutions use processes to prolong incarceration and that Julian is not convicted of any crime, that he’s been in the wing of his prison the longest, but he’s there without formally being a prisoner.”