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Update: 06/24/24 04:30: WikiLeaks account in X say what “Julián Assange is free” and that he was released from prison on the morning of this Monday, June 24. Besides, has published a video in which the activist can be seen leaving the United Kingdom on board a plane. You can see the original article below. |
Julian Assange, who has been fighting his extradition to the United States for years, intends to plead guilty as part of an agreement with the Department of Justice of that country, CNBC points out. The pact, which must still be approved by a federal judge, would allow him to avoid spending more time in jail and return to Australia, his homeland.
The WikiLeaks founder is expected to appear in court on Wednesday in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. We are talking about an unincorporated territory of the United States located between Hawaii and the Philippines. There he would have to plead guilty to a single charge, that of conspiring to illegally obtain and disseminate classified information.
A new stage in the life of Assange
Unless there is a last minute change, once the aforementioned procedure is completed, Assange should be freed. This responds to one of the terms of the agreement, which establishes a sentence of 62 months in prison, a period of time equivalent to that spent in the high-security Belmarsh prison, located southeast of London.
The activist, who founded WikiLeaks in 2006, took refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2012 after an extradition request from Sweden, where he had been accused of rape, although that country’s prosecutor’s office later filed the charges. In 2019, however, he was charged with 18 counts related to the publication of classified documents.
Later that same year, Ecuador withdrew Assange’s political asylum, so he could be arrested by the London Metropolitan Police.. Since then he has spent most of the time in the aforementioned prison in the United Kingdom. In one of his worst moments, he faced a possible sentence of more than 170 years in prison.
Images | David G Silvers. Foreign Ministry of Ecuador (CC BY-SA 2.0) | Graphic Tribe (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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