Wikileaks founder Julian Assange stepped off a private jet in Canberra, Australia late Wednesday evening local time a free man, having earlier accepted a plea agreement with an American court.
His family met him on the tarmac, although per his own claim, the first person to speak with Mr Assange after his aircraft landed was the Australian Prime Minister by telephone. TheAnthony Albanese, who leads the left-wing Australian government, said Mr Assange had told him landing back in his native Australia was a “surreal and happy moment”.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange waves after arriving at Canberra Airport in Canberra on June 26, 2024, after he pleaded guilty at a US court in Saipan to a single count of conspiracy to obtain and disseminate US national defence information. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned home to Australia to start life as a free man June 26 after admitting he revealed US defence secrets in a deal that unlocked the door to his London prison cell.
Assange had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to obtain and disclose national defence information, doing so as part of the plea agreement in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Island, without setting foot in the mainland United States. The agreement appears to have ended a near-14 year legal saga since Mr Assange published a large cache of intelligence documents through Wikileaks.
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