WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released from British prison, will plead guilty in deal with US
The deal ensures that Assange will admit guilt for violating the United States’ espionage law, but will be spared additional prison time.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was released from British prison on Monday after negotiating a deal with the United States under which he will plead guilty to a charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defence information, the Associated Press reported.
The deal ensures that while Assange will admit guilt for violating the US espionage law, he will be spared additional prison time, reported AP.
“After more than five years in a 2x3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he [Assange] will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars,” WikiLeaks said in a social media post.
WikiLeaks is a nonprofit media organisation that publishes leaked documents.
Assange faced 18 charges in the United States in connection with releasing five lakh secret files on American military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. The files were made public between 2010 and 2011. Assange is also accused of soliciting and publishing the information.
In 2012, Assange sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London after Swedish authorities sought his arrest on rape allegations. He was arrested by the British police in 2019 on behalf of the United States.
In April 2021, a British court held that Assange could not be extradited to the US, as...
