Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has reached a plea agreement with the United States government, allowing him to evade imprisonment in the U.S. for his role in leaking highly classified military documents.
As part of the deal, Assange will plead guilty to charges under the Espionage Act. He will also receive credit for the five years he spent incarcerated in the United Kingdom while contesting his extradition to the United States, as stated in court filings and various reports.
The Australian-born Assange faced charges of conspiracy to acquire and release national defense information after publishing classified documents related to the U.S. military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq on WikiLeaks, the documents reveal.
Following his guilty plea, Assange is anticipated to be released from detention in the UK. This plea is set to take place during a federal court session in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth, later this week.
{Matzav.com}
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“WE SHOULD ALL SHOUT: ‘MAZAL TOV’!!!!!!!!”
Boruch Hashem, in a world that, tragically, is so full of extremely terrible things happening, there finally is one tiny item of good news of the finally freeing from a full decade of cruel abuse & wrongful incarceration this exceptionally wonderful outright hero, Julian Assange, who, so fantastically and courageously had exposed a huge amount of, very tragically, the horrific exceeding evil of our US Government. For a full & detailed story about Mr. Assange, please see the writeup at https://stopworldcontrol.com/assange/.