WikiLeaks founder Assange pleads guilty to espionage charge ahead of expected release

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at a United States District Court in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, US, June 26, 2024.SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was freed by a court on the US Pacific island territory of Saipan on Wednesday after pleading guilty to violating US espionage law, in a deal that will see him return home to Australia.

"I believed the First Amendment protected that activity but I accept that it was... a violation of the espionage statute." Assange had agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal count, according to filings in the US District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands. "I watch this and think how overloaded his senses must be, walking through the press scrum after years of sensory depravation and the four walls of his high security Belmarsh prison cell," Stella Assange, the wife of WikiLeaks founder said on social media platform X.

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