Julian Assange is free

Assange has reached an agreement with US justice and has already left prison, where he has been imprisoned since 2019.

• Julian Assange has been imprisoned in the United Kingdom since 2019 and has so far risked extradition to the United States, where he risks 175 years in prison.
• The agreement with the US Department of Justice requires him to plead guilty and be sentenced on only one of the charges.
• The sentence will be considered equal to the years already spent in prison in London.Assange, who has already left his cell, will therefore be free and will return to Australia.

Julian Assange has settled with US justice and is preparing to be a free man.The founder of Wikileaks, detained since 2019 in United Kingdom and at risk of extradition to the United States where they were hanging over him 18 counts for violating the Espionage Act, he reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice.

Assange will plead guilty to one of the charges in a US federal court and his sentence will be considered expunged for the period spent in prison from 2019 to today.He has already left prison to go to court, then I will return to his as a free man Australia putting an end to an ordeal that has been going on for too long.

The story of Julian Assange

Julian Assange is the founder of Wikileaks, a platform that aims to publish documents covered by secrecy, sent by whistleblowers in order to guarantee them total anonymity and non-traceability.

The platform rose to prominence in 2010, when he published a series of confidential US government and military files and cables concerning, among other things, the modus operandi of the US military in war in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also in Guantanamo maximum security prison.Assange he was arrested, but not for the revelations of his platform.In fact, a complaint was pending against him sexual harassment in Sweden, which was then archived.In the meantime, the founder of Wikileaks has taken refuge inEmbassy of Ecuador to London to avoid extradition to Stockholm and spent almost seven years here.

In 2019 Assange lost political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy and was arrested by the British authorities on the 2012 charges, namely violation of bail after arrest.Assange has been transferred to Belmarsh maximum security prison and has begun the trial process for his sentence extradition in the United States for violation of the Espionage Act, requested by the Trump administration.There were on Assange 18 counts and the risk of 175 years in prison to the United States, where he was preparing to be extradited with the favorable opinion of theHigh Court, London.But that was last May she's back on his steps and allowed Assange to appeal against extradition.

The liberation of Assange

Last April the president of the United States, Joe Biden, he had implied that he was thinking of dropping the charges against Julian Assange.And that's what happened now, or at least in part.

Assange has reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice for which he has already been released from English prison where he has been imprisoned since 2019.The founder of Wikileaks will declare himself guilty of violating the U.S. Espionage Act in federal court Saipan, in the Mariana Islands.And he will be convicted of only one of the 18 charges against him.The sentence that will be imposed on him will be equivalent to the period already spent in English prison and, therefore, Assange is preparing to be a free man and to return to his Australia.

“I'm elated:frankly it's unbelievable, it feels like it's not real,” he said Stella Assange, Julian's wife, who in recent years has never stopped fighting for his liberation.The treatment reserved for the founder of Wikileaks has been under the spotlight of human rights organizations for years, given that his state of health he emerged compromised from detention.