Julian Assange is free

Published 25 June 2024 at 07.11

Foreign. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been set free – after twelve years in captivity.

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“Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh high-security prison on the morning of June 24 after spending 1,901 days there,” writes Wikileaks on X.

He should have already left Britain by plane.

Assange has made a plea deal with the US Department of Justice. On Wednesday, he will appear before a court in the Mariana Islands, a US autonomous territory in the Pacific Ocean, to plead guilty to illegally receiving and disseminating classified national defense information.

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE

Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a…

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 24, 2024

Assange was accused in the US of his role in the major diplomatic leak in 2010, when around 700,000 classified documents related to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were made public.

The 52-year-old Assange has been imprisoned in Belmarsh prison in London since April 2019. Before that, he spent seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden due to allegations of sexual crimes against Swedish feminists after voluntary intercourse during a visit to Stockholm. The Swedish investigation was closed in 2019.