Julian Assange's wife Stella says his health is deteriorating at Belmarsh as she slams US and Mike Pompeo for 'murder plot' and begs UK and America to free him

Julian Assange's wife has claimed his health is declining as he awaits a decision on his extradition to the US at Belmarsh prison in London.

Stella Assange gave an update on her husband's condition as she slammed the US and former CIA director Mike Pompeo for an alleged murder plot against the Wikileaks founder under the Trump administration.

'He's not doing well, he wasn't even attending these hearings and this is the decisive hearing,' Stella told Tucker Calrson during an appearance on his X show.

'If he hadn't been kept in Belmarsh prison during the past five years he wouldn't be in this state of deterioration and decline. Every day he spends in prison is a day that his health deteriorates.'

Stella addressed a Yahoo News report that claimed the CIA planned to assassinate Assange after Wikileaks published sensitive agency hacking tools online, with Carlson asking how she felt that 'Mike Pompeo tried to murder her husband.'

Stella Assange gave an update on her husband's condition as she slammed the US and former CIA director Mike Pompeo for an alleged murder plot against the Wikileaks founder

Stella addressed a Yahoo News report that claimed the CIA planned to assassinate Assange after Wikileaks published sensitive agency hacking tools online

'Julian is under enormous pressure... he knows the US is a country that has plotted his assassination's. The stakes could not be higher,' Stella said.

'If the UK decides in favor of the US, the it will put Julian on a plane to the US, that is how imminent it is. Really, it's a very high-risk moment for Julian.'

Pompeo allegedly led the crusade against Assange in 2017 when WikiLeaks continued publishing classified government documents.

'He's a dangerous individual,' Stella said of Pompeo. 'The CIA is a rogue organization that everyone on every level of US politics is terrified of, they are trained to assassinate, to fabricate information and place it in the media and conduct propaganda warfare and to overthrow governments and so on.'

Carlson also accused the British government of degrading 'their own system and history on behalf of the US government'.

'It's the default state of affairs - the UK views itself as a lapdog,' Stella replied.

Assange’s fight to avoid facing spying charges in the United States may be nearing an end following a protracted legal saga in the UK that included seven years of self-exile inside a foreign embassy and five years in prison. 

'Every day he spends in prison is a day that his health deteriorates,' Stella Assange said. An exterior view of Belmarsh high security prison on October 8

Court hearings this week will determine whether Assange will be extradited to the US. A demonstrator shouts slogans outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Tuesday

Julian Assange, who faces espionage charges and up to 175 years in jail, pictured with his wife Stella 

He's facing what could be his final court hearings in London this week as he fights to stop his extradition to the US.

The High Court scheduled two days of arguments over whether Assange can ask an appeals court to block his transfer. If the court doesn’t allow the appeal to go forward, he could be sent across the Atlantic within weeks.

Assange, 52, an Australian computer expert, has been indicted in the US on 18 charges over Wikileaks’ publication of hundreds of thousands of classified documents in 2010.

Prosecutors say he conspired with US army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to hack into a Pentagon computer and release secret diplomatic cables and military files on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He faces 17 counts of espionage and one charge of computer misuse. If convicted, his lawyers say he could receive a prison term of up to 175 years, though American authorities have said any sentence is likely to be much lower.

Assange and his supporters argue he acted as a journalist to expose U.S. military wrongdoing and is protected under press freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution