Julian Assange and the ECHR Application. The wife of WikiLeaks founder Assange stated that she would turn to the ECHR if the court decides to extradite her husband and stated that the United Kingdom should respect the decision. Stella Assange, the wife of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose extradition case to the USA will be heard next week in England, stated that they would turn to the ECHR if the court decides to extradite her husband and said that England should respect the decision. Stella Assange and WikiLeaks‘ deputy editor, Kristinn Hrafnsson, answered questions from an AA reporter before the hearing on Julian Assange’s extradition to the USA, which will take place in England from February 20 to 21. Assange said, „Our meetings have made us optimistic that we will be reunited as a family, but unfortunately the legal situation is very poor.“ Assange, who is also a lawyer, discussed the steps to be taken if the British court decides to extradite his wife to the USA. Assange pointed out that the path to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is open and said, „If Julian loses the case, he has no right to appeal in England, and domestic remedies will be exhausted.“ This means that he will turn to the European Court of Human Rights. We will apply for an injunction to prevent the United Kingdom from extraditing him to the USA. „The United Kingdom must respect this decision,“ he said. Prison conditions and the role of the CIA. „The only institution that can give instructions on prison conditions is the CIA, which plans to kill Assange.“ He stated that this was enough to stop his extradition to the United States. „You can’t extradite a person to a country where there are institutions planning to kill them.“ Hrafnsson also addressed the assurances from the US State Department regarding the process and prison conditions against Assange. Process against Assange. WikiLeaks, founded by Assange, released 251,000 secret documents on October 28, 2010, revealing crimes committed by the USA in Iraq and Afghanistan. Assange was taken into custody on April 11, 2019, from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he sought refuge in June 2012, and arrested for „violating the bail conditions“ and taken to Belmarsh Prison in London. The court decided that Assange, sentenced to 50 weeks in prison, would remain in custody even after serving his sentence as part of his extradition request.