Julian Assange has been released from prison, according to Wikileaks, the organization he founded, which posted a video on social media of him boarding a flight at London Stansted Airport on Monday to leave the United Kingdom.
This is how Julian Assange got out of prison. pic.twitter.com/uYdn1A1goj
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The announcement that Assange was free came shortly after it emerged that he would plead guilty this week to violating the US Espionage Act, in a deal that would allow him to return to his native Australia.
U.S. prosecutors said in court documents that Assange, 52, agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal charge of conspiracy to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defense documents, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court. for the Northern Mariana Islands, in that country.
The American justice had accused Assange of up to 18 crimes for violating the Espionage Act due to one of the largest leaks of classified information in the history of the United States in 2010, which revealed secrets from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as data about the detainees at the Guantanamo base, among other matters.
Wikileaks has been, without a doubt, one of the most influential sites in international politics in recent years. Among Wikileaks leaks, one can find, for example, a video of the North American army in 2007 in Iraq showing how two Reuters journalists were murdered. This is one of the publications that is beginning to make the site known at a global level. international.
For years, the United States sought the extradition of Julian Assange to stand trial in a blatant attempt by imperialism to discipline those who want to denounce its secrets and atrocities while it carries out widespread espionage on the world’s population.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
