- Julian Assange is finally free after spending 5 years in a UK jail.
- The Wikileaks co-founder boarded a private jet at Stanstead airport.
- Assange will plead guilty, seeing a 5 year term, which he has already served.
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has left the U.K. for a Saipan courtroom, ending his years-long legal battle with the U.S. government.
After five years in a U.K. jail and nearly seven years in Ecuador’s London embassy, Assange boarded a private jet at Stansted Airport. He left the country for a courtroom on the Pacific island of Saipan, WikiLeaks announced on its X account.
JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREEJulian 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
Upon arriving in Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, Assange is expected to receive a five-year sentence with credit for time already served in the U.K. U.S. prosecutors confirmed that he will plead guilty to conspiring to obtain and discl…
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