Stella Assange

Early life and education Stella Assange was born Sara González Devant in 1983 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her Spanish mother is a theatre director and her Swedish father–who is of Cuban heritage–is an architect, town planner, and artist. Both of her parents were known for participating in the Medu Art Ensemble, an anti-apartheid artist collective in Botswana. Throughout her youth, Assange lived in Botswana, Lesotho, Spain and Sweden. In 1985, during a raid into Gaborone conducted by the South African Defence Force, a family friend named Thami Mnyele was killed. This act of state-sponsored killing left a defining impression on the Devant family. For the sake of additional security while working with Julian, Stella changed her name to Stella Moris in 2012.

On October 10, 2022, Stella and thousands of others locked arms in a human chain around the Parliament of the United Kingdom to demand Julian Assange's freedom and the cessation of any extradition attempts.

In 2023, Stella discussed her husband's situation with Pope Francis. On June 24, 2024, she released a statement saying that Julian Assange would be set free.

In addition to her work on her husband's behalf, Stella Assange has authored a number of articles for the magazine New Internationalist.

Personal life and marriage In 2015, Stella began a relationship with Julian Assange. During Julian's seven-year period of political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, the couple conceived two children, who were born in 2017 and 2019. The children's godmothers are the rapper M.I.A. and Tracy Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort.