WikiLeaks founder Assange pleads guilty in US deal to walk free

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SAIPAN (Northern Mariana Islands), June 26 — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty in a US court in Saipan today, AFP reporters said, in a plea bargain that will...

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He was released Monday from a high-security British prison where he had been held for five years while he fought extradition to the United States. After the hearing is done, Assange will fly to Canberra in Australia, WikiLeaks said on social media platform X, adding that the plea bargain “should never have had to happen.”

He was indicted by a US federal grand jury in 2019 on 18 counts stemming from WikiLeaks’ publication of a trove of national security documents. The material he released through WikiLeaks included video showing civilians being killed by fire from a US helicopter gunship in Iraq in 2007. The victims included a photographer and a driver from Reuters.

 

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