Julian Assange of WikiLeaks was released from a British prison on Monday and is planning to return to Australia after he faced 12 years in a US prison after being extradited on charges of jumping bail in 2019. After five years of isolation in a high-security prison and almost seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Assagae released Accept installations of a large-scale violation of US classified information that led to a federal colony of charges against him. This plea bargain brings to an end his long sorry of the law, where he gets out of the custody of the United States and goes back to Australia with the condition of awaiting trial in a remote United States Pacific territory.
The Plea Deal
The plea deal entails Assange taking a misdemeanor charge which lies in the multiple counts indictment regarding the biggest disclosure of secrets involving the US. The organization released nearly half a million documents related to the US warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan secretly. In return, the US prosecutors are demanding a 62-month sentence which Assange has spent in the UK hence he will be free to go back to Australia as soon as he appears in the court in the US-controlled region of the Northern Mariana Islands.
This one was also grounded on fear of having a biased trial and being given a life imprisonment sentence in the US if extradited. The plea bargain deal that needs the approval of a federal judge involves a hearing and a sentencing set for Wednesday in Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands. This US territory is 3,700 miles west of Hawaii and closer to Australia so it is easier for Assange to be returned home.
Charges and Controversies
Assange was wanted in the US over espionage offenses in association with WikiLeaks, more specifically disclosure of classified documents provided by the now forsaken US Army intelligence analyst, Chelsea Manning. Such documents consisted of logs outlining the US military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, that Assange labeled as evidence of war crimes. He was accused of 18 counts of charges that could jail him for a total of 175 years. Some consider as an achievement of WikiLeaks, while others say that it puts people’s lives and states’ security in danger.
The main legal episodes in Assange’s struggle
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