Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has touched down in the Northern Mariana Islands this morning to face a US court. Assange has spent the past five years in a high-security UK prison and the seven years before that at the Ecuadorian embassy in London trying to avoid arrest over his publication of classified US documents in 2010 and 2011.
and not take a risk of landing on the US mainland and being trapped there for the rest of his life.” Assange said Australia was the “guarantor” for the deal and although he had a little anxiety about it, he said it was almost certainly ironclad. “Australia has been the guarantor in this whole equation between the UK and the United States, to make sure that Julian is returned to Australia,” Shipton said. “I think that’s really showing the will of the Australian people as well.