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Assange will be allowed to marry in Belmarsh prison

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is to allow Julian Assange to marry in jail, as to refuse him could breach human rights rules.

The MoJ is understood to have told lawyers for the Wikileaks founder that his marriage to Stella Moris can go ahead behind bars at the high-security Belmarsh prison in south-east London. Ms Moris, the mother of his two children, was hired in 2011 as part of Mr Assange's legal team

Mr Assange and Ms Moris had been preparing legal action against the Justice Secretary, Dominic Raab, and the governor of Belmarsh, Jenny Louis, over claims that they were preventing them getting wed. The action accused them of denying the human rights of the couple and their two children

As Mr Assange is on remand and fighting extradition to the US on espionage charges. The Crown Prosecution Service also had to be consulted and approve the wedding.

It is understood that the MoJ believed its hands were tied by prison rules, which state the governor must "make every effort" to allow inmates to marry, in line with section 12 of the Convention on Human Rights.

Ms Moris, a lawyer, linked the resistance by British officials to the hostility towards WikiLeaks on the part of the US. The US authorities were accused recently of plotting to kill or kidnap Assange during the years he hid in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

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