Julian Assange freed from UK prison after striking US deal
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Julian Assange, the founder of
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has been released from prison in the UK and is set to return to his native Australia as a free man after agreeing to plead guilty on Tuesday to violating US espionage law.
Assange, 52, will plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents, according to filings in the US District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.
His 14-year British legal saga, which included a seven-year spell confined to the Ecuadorian embassy in London, ended on Monday, when he was released from Belmarsh prison having spent more than five years there.
Assange flew out of the UK from Stansted Airport on Monday evening. He is on his way to Saipan, the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth in the western Pacific.
In Saipan, Assange is due to be sentenced to 62 months of time already served at a hearing on Tuesday morning local time. The US territory was chosen because of Assange's opposition to travelling to the mainland US and for its proximity to Australia, prosecutors said.
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Assange, 52, will plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents, according to filings in the US District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.
His 14-year British legal saga, which included a seven-year spell confined to the Ecuadorian embassy in London, ended on Monday, when he was released from Belmarsh prison having spent more than five years there.
Assange flew out of the UK from Stansted Airport on Monday evening. He is on his way to Saipan, the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth in the western Pacific.
In Saipan, Assange is due to be sentenced to 62 months of time already served at a hearing on Tuesday morning local time. The US territory was chosen because of Assange's opposition to travelling to the mainland US and for its proximity to Australia, prosecutors said.
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