WikiLeaks' Julian Assange allowed to marry partner in London jail

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted permission to marry his partner in London prison.

Assange has been held in UK’s maximum-security prison since 2019 after the United States took legal action to extradite him.

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The 50-year-old was granted permission to marry his partner Stella Moris after applying to the prison governor, reports said.

Assange met Stella in 2011 while living in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. The couple, who fell in love in 2015 and got engaged two years later, have two children together, named Max and Gabriel.

For now, no date has yet been set for the wedding.

Assange, an Australian citizen, was arrested by police after spending five years in the London embassy, where he sought political asylum as he fought to avoid extradition to Sweden, fearing he would be taken to the US. Assange is slapped with 18 charges in the United States, including under the Espionage Act, for "conspiring" to gain access to US military secrets between January and May 2010.