Julian Assange pleads guilty in court on US Pacific island
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The Wikileaks founder is allowed to walk free and return to Australia after being sentenced in a US court.

After a years-long legal saga, Wikileaks says that founder Julian Assange has left the UK after reaching a deal with US authorities that will see him plead guilty to criminal charges and go free.

Assange, 52, was charged with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information […]

Assange will spend no time in US custody and will receive credit for the time spent incarcerated in the UK.

[He] will return to Australia, according to a letter from the justice department.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    183·
    4 days ago

    As an American, this is still crap. Assange is a hero as is Snowden and others that had the moral backbone to stand up to the post 9/11 monster insistent on proving bin Laden won against any remaining visage of freedom and democracy in the USA. We live in his dystopian dream of crumbling failure now, and insist on persecuting those that show how and what we lost.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
    162·
    4 days ago

    Oh, that’s nice.

    Alford plea?

    Wow. he shouldn’t have been charged at all, but at least he’s being released finally.

    Wow What a hell of a saga for him.

    • NateNate60@lemmy.world
      8·
      4 days ago

      I think there might’ve been some pressure from the top. If William Barr was Attorney-General and Trump was President, then I’m sure they’d have thrown the book at him.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        4 days ago

        I agree.

        That’s kind of what I meant, I’m really glad that this administration took the initiative to allow him liberty again since I don’t think he deserved the charges in the first place.