Stella Assange said in a news conference on Wednesday ... She added that Mr Assange will aim to seek a pardon to the charge “when the time comes” and he “remains deeply principled ...

That is what Stella Morris, the fiancée of Australian citizen Julian Assange, suggested Wednesday night after a formal request for Assange’s pardon was filed with the White House this week.

and seek to rely upon, the first amendment as a defence”. In response to the assurances, Assange’s wife Stella Assange previously said the US had provided “blatant weasel words”.