SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walked free on June 26 from a court on the US Pacific island territory of Saipan afterin a deal that allowed him to head straight home to Australia.
“Working as a journalist, I encouraged my source to provide information that was said to be classified in order to publish that information,” he told the court. She wished Mr Assange, who turns 53 on July 3, an early happy birthday as she released him due to time already served in a British jail. “It is a huge relief to Julian Assange, to his family, to his friends, to his supporters and to us and to everyone who believes in free speech around the world that he can now return home to Australia and be reunited with his family,” she said.
“That Julian can come home to Australia and see his family regularly and do the ordinary things of life is a treasure,” his father, Mr John Shipton, told Reuters in Canberra, where he was waiting for his son’s return.Mr 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,” his wife, Mrs Stella Assange, said on social media platform X.
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