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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walks free after reaching plea deal in USA

By IBNS
Jun 26, 2024..

Taking a new turn in his life, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday walked free for the first time in 12 years after a US judge signed off on his plea deal, media reports said.


Assange walked out of the courtroom as a free man into the bright Saipan sunshine, raising one hand to a gaggle of the world’s press before departing by car for the airport where he caught a flight to the Australian capital Canberra, reported CNN.

Also Read: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves UK following US plea deal

Assange’s US lawyer Barry Pollack was quoted as saying by the American news channel that he had “suffered tremendously in his fight for free speech and freedom of the press”.

“The prosecution of Julian Assange is unprecedented in the 100 years of the Espionage Act,” Pollack told reporters. “Mr. Assange revealed truthful, newsworthy information … We firmly believe that Mr. Assange never should have been charged under the Espionage Act and engaged in (an) exercise that journalists engage in every day.”

Press conference outside Saipan court with Julian’s US criminal defence attorney Barry Pollack and UK barrister Jennifer Robinson. pic.twitter.com/57T287p8SE

— Stella Assange #FreeAssangeNOW (@Stella_Assange) June 26, 2024

Earlier on Tuesday, he left a prison in the UK and headed to a US courtroom on the Northern Mariana Islands to formalize the agreement.

“I am, in fact, guilty of the charge,” Assange told the court in Saipan as quoted by CNN.

Assange's wife Stella wrote on X: "Julian Assange Free At Last!!!."

Assange, detained first in prison then under house arrest, took refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London in 2012 after losing his appeal to the UK Supreme Court against extradition to Sweden, where a judicial investigation was initiated against him in connection with allegations of sexual misconduct. However, he was not formally charged.

Assange's WikiLeaks site published confidential diplomatic information, and he has been detained since 2010.

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