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Jun 26, 2024 01:58 GMT
The US court in the Mariana Islands releases Julian Assange after accepting the partial admission of guilt agreement. The Justice Department has not imposed any period of supervised freedom on the journalist.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has officially been released from prison after reaching a plea deal with the US Department of Justice.
The journalist appeared in court in Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands (an unincorporated US territory) and pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to obtain and disseminate national defense information. The WikiLeaks founder asserted that no one tried to bribe, intimidate or coerce him into admitting his guilt.
Announcing her verdict, Judge Ramona V. Manglona declared that he sentences Assange to the same number of years that he has already spent in prison until now, without the period of probation.
“With this pronouncement it seems that he will be able to walk out of this courtroom a free man. I hope that peace will be restored”said.
The Assange case
Assange was held in London prison Belmarsh in 2019, after the then president of Ecuador, Lenín Moreno, allowed his arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where the Australian journalist had remained in asylum status for seven years, since June 2012.
In June 2022, the United Kingdom approved the extradition of Assange to the United States, where he is accused of publishing on WikiLeaks hundreds of thousands of pages of secret military documents and confidential diplomatic cables highly compromising for Washington about his activities. in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. However, in May the British Supreme Court ruled that Assange had the right to appeal that decision.
Assange left the Belmarsh maximum security prison this Monday morning after 1,901 days of confinement. The High Court in the British capital released the journalist on bail, after which the Australian left the United Kingdom.
The journalist was later taken to US territory to face a judge as part of the plea deal that freed him to return to Australia. His brother, Gabriel Shipton, outlined Assange’s plans for when he returns to his home country. “He will seek to rest and recuperate with his family away from the cameras for a while,” he claimed.
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