WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleads guilty to violating the US Espionage Act, in a deal that has ended his imprisonment in Britain and allowed him to return to his native Australia.
Julian Assange He leaves the London jail and puts an end to a painful legal labyrinth.
Assange, 52, agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiracy to obtain and disclose classified documents of the national defense of the United States, according to documents filed in the United States District Court for the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
His wife, Stellapublished this tweet celebrating Assange’s freedom.
Assange’s defense agreed with the United States a sentence to 62 months in prison already served at a hearing on the island of Saipan and his immediate release.
In 2010, WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of classified US military documents on war crimes and human rights violationscommitted by the United States in the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
