SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walked free on Wednesday from a court on the U.S. Pacific island territory of Saipan after pleading guilty to violating U.S. espionage law, in a deal that will see him return home to Australia.His release ends a 14-year legal saga in which Assange spent more than five years in a British high-security jail and seven years in asylum at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, battling extradition to the U.S.
Assange, 52, left the court through a throng of TV cameras and photographers without answering questions, then waved as he got into a white SUV.He is set to leave Saipan on a private jet accompanied by Australia’s ambassadors to the U.S. and UK, heading to the Australian capital Canberra, where they are expected to land around 7 p.m. , according to flight logs.Assange had agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal count, according to filings in the U.S.
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