Julian Assange, founder of whistleblower platform Wikileaks, has announced he and his wife Stella Assange are having their third child after he was freed from jail.
Assange reposted the image shortly after, saying: “October surprise.”
The news comes just over two years since he was freed following a 14-year-long legal battle against espionage charges.
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Julian Assange, founder of whistleblower platform Wikileaks, has announced he and his wife Stella Assange are having their third child after he was freed from jail.
The 55-year-old’s wife took to social media to share the “happy news” with a photo of the couple late on Monday.
Assange reposted the image shortly after, saying: “October surprise.”
The child is the couple’s third, after sons Gabriel and Max.
The news comes just over two years since he was freed following a 14-year-long legal battle against espionage charges.
Following his publication of classified US documents in 2010 and 2011, Assange spent seven years at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he was granted asylum on the grounds of political persecution as he avoided extradition to Sweden amid a rape investigation that was later dropped by Swedish authorities.
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