By Megan Kinninment
March 11, 2012
All mothers worry about their kids. It goes with the territory.
Are they eating enough? Are they doing well at school? Will they be sent to America and be imprisoned and tortured? Oh, wait.
That last fear doesn’t crop up for most mothers, does it? For the mother of Wikileaks editor-in-chief, Julian Assange however, the fear is real.
As a journalist, I am fascinated by Wikileaks and its enigmatic Australian founder but as a mother I wonder how I would cope if it were my child under the spotlight of both the world’s media and the Pentagon. Last week I interviewed Christine Assange, 61, the mother of the man whose name returns over 28million results in a Google search.
I discovered a woman under extraordinary pressure.
In the coming days Julian Assange will hear the outcome of a UK Supreme Court appeal against extradition to Sweden to face questioning over sexual assault allegations made in 2010.
Christine Assange fears that once her son lands in Swedish soil he will be extradited to the US to be imprisoned for his role in publishing leaked secret diplomatic cables exposing the US government’s actions in the Iraq war....read more
http://thehoopla.com.au/christine-assange-mothers-courage/
