Priti Patel signs an order to extradite Julian Assange to the US

Julian Assange's wife today revealed her husband has vowed to kill himself if he is extradited to the US as Priti Patel signed an order to send him to Virginia to face espionage charges and potentially a 175-year jail sentence. Stella Moris, activist and wife of Julian Assange, reacts during a news conference after Britain approved the US extradition of her WikiLeaks' founder husband Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson said they would go to the European Court of Human Rights if necessary Julian Assange is a step close to extradition to the United States after Priti Patel signed an order agreeing he could be sent to the US The Home Secretary has rubber stamped the order issued by a judge at Westminster Magistrates' Court to fly the WikiLeaks founder to America where he will be handed over to federal agents and put on trial Assange's wife, Stella Moris, who married the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder in April, said: 'Anyone in this country who cares about freedom of expression should be deeply ashamed that the Home Secretary has approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States, the country that plotted his assassination' Stella Moris, the partner of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, is photographed with their sons Max, 3, and Gabriel, 4, in her Vivienne Westwood designed wedding dress on their prison wedding day Assange has been in Belmarsh for three years - having spend seven years hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy WikiLeaks today declared it is 'not the end' and pledged to go back to court to try to keep him in Britain, claiming today is a 'dark day for press freedom and British democracy' and accusing Ms Patel of choosing not to 'do the right thing'. Assange's barrister, Australian human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson, said she would now 'exhaust' every legal avenue possible including going to Strasbourg, whose judges grounded a plane taking migrants to Rwanda this week. Assange's supporters, including former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and members of Amnesty International, held a protest outside the court in the build up to the last extradition hearing in April. Julian Assange speaking from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he hid for seven years Assange's supporters, including former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and members of Amnesty International, held a protest outside the court in the build up to the hearing Stella Moris, 38, married 50-year-old Julian Assange in Belmarsh Prison, south east London on March 23, just weeks before the third anniversary of his dramatic arrest when he was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in the capital in April 2019 Julian Assange will NOT be held in a supermax jail if he's extradited, US assures UK Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will not be held in supermax prison conditions if he is allowed to be extradited to the United States, American officials have assured British authorities.