Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, who is in British prison Belmarsh, received permission to marry his fiancee Stella Maurice, BBC reports..

The Prison Service said Assange's application was "

Prisoners are eligible to apply for marriage in prison under the 1983 Marriage Act. Where applications are granted, they must cover all the costs of getting married without taxpayer assistance..

In an interview with The Mail, Stella Maurice said that she has been in a relationship with Julian Assange since 2015 and raised their two young sons on her own.. In a video posted to her YouTube account Wikileaks, she stated that she met him in 2011 when she joined his legal team..

Julian Assange ended up in British prison due to the events of 2012. Then in Sweden he was charged with sexual harassment, and the UK had to decide on his extradition.. Assange, released on bail, did not appear in court and took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he was for seven years. The Swedish authorities later closed the case.. In April 2019, the founder of Wikileaks was found guilty of failure to appear in court in 2012 at Westminster Magistrates' Court.. Then the authorities of Ecuador allowed the British police to enter the embassy and arrest the founder of Wikileaks. In early May 2019, a UK court sent Assange to jail for 50 weeks..

In April 2019, the US Department of Justice announced that it accuses the founder of WikiLeaks of conspiring with ex-Wikileaks informant Chelsea Manning to hack into the networks of government computers to distribute secret military documents.. Later, the US judicial authorities announced a decision to bring additional charges against the founder of Wikileaks on 17 more counts.. All accusations, as noted by the American media, are related to the illegal receipt and disclosure of data related to the US defense..