WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange bailed from prison in the UK
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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was bailed out of a UK prison on Monday. He pleaded guilty to a US espionage crime. Assange is pleading guilty on Wednesday for not following a U.S. espionage charge, in a that will free him from his being in prison in Britain and will let him go home to Australia, after a 14 year legal troubles.
He has agreed to plead a guilty charge to one criminal offense of planning to receive disclosed classified U.S. documents defense national, according to the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.
The cooperate deal ends of a legal battle when Assange spent many years in a British highly security jail and in the Ecuadorean area in London and fought off talks of sexual offenses in Sweden, while fighting to the U.S., where he had 18 criminal charges against him.
On Wednesday, he is set to serve 62 months of time served at a speaking in Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, at 9 a.m. local time or at 2300 GMT, Tuesday.
Sources
[edit]- Alasdair Pal and Sarah N. Lynch. "WikiLeaks' Julian Assange set to be freed after pleading guilty to US espionage charge" — Reuters, June 25, 2024
- Eric Tucker. "A look at Julian Assange and how the long-jailed WikiLeaks founder is now on the verge of freedom" — The Associated Press, June 25, 2024