Julian Assange walks free: WikiLeaks founder boards plane out of UK after agreeing plea deal

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange flew out of the UK on Monday apparently a free man after reaching a plea deal with US authorities over spy charges that have dogged him for more than a decade. In the coming hours, Assange, 52, is expected to plead guilty to a single espionage charge in a court appearance on a tiny US-controlled Pacific island and prosecutors will seek a sentence equivalent to time served. WikiLeaks published footage of Assange being driven from Belmarsh jail in London, where he has been detained for five years, to Stansted Airport. He then boarded a private jet that landed in Bangkok, Thailand to refuel. Assange has been a wanted man since 2010 when WikiLeaks released hundreds of thousands of classified US military documents on Washington’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq – the largest security breaches of their kind in US military history – along with swathes of diplomatic cables. In 2012, as authorities circled him for that and over ‘credible and reliable’ sex crime allegations from a woman in Sweden, he fled into London’s Ecuadorian embassy where he remained for seven years in often farcical circumstances. After falling out with the South American nation’s rulers he was dragged out of his bolthole in 2019 and locked up in Belmarsh while the US attempted to extradite him. But that legal process ended abruptly yesterday, and WikiLeaks broke the news with a post on X reading: ‘Julian Assange is free!’ In a pre-recorded video filmed outside Belmarsh prison, Assange’s wife Stella and WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson said: ‘If you’re seeing this, it means he is out.’ #assange #Julianassange #wikileaks

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48 thoughts on “Julian Assange walks free: WikiLeaks founder boards plane out of UK after agreeing plea deal”

  5. Wait! Why did the UK get away holding him for 5.5 years without charge. Thsts barbaric! Shows the wold is ran by severely wicked devils. Obviously Im gald hes released today. I hope he doesn't go back to jail soon if he keeps on exposing the evils going on in government

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  25. He was released due to agreeing to a ''Plea Deal'' with the US.

    While it's fantastic news that he is released on ''Bail'
    he is not a ''Free Man' in the true sense.

    People need to hold his oppressors to Account in that
    nobody in the MSM was arrested and held without charge
    and many of them promoted and printed far more revealing
    and dangerous Information and Data.

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  27. British government and Foreign Secretaries including the Judiciary’s need to be utterly ashamed of themselves for the contempt of our Constitution, by locking up an innocent man without trial, this is happening once to often and it’s time this corruption stopped. Every sitting judge needs to be vetted without bias and favour, those that smell of political corruption should be disbarred and the sooner the better.

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  40. Julian Assange, in my view, epitomizes the qualities of a great man, a hero, and a genuine human being. His unwavering commitment to transparency and the dissemination of truth has led him to risk his own life, standing in the line of fire to inform the public about critical matters hidden from view. Such courage and dedication to the principles of free speech and accountability should be celebrated and honored, not condemned and criminalized. His actions have ignited important global conversations about the role of whistleblowers and the need for governmental transparency, making him a pivotal figure in the ongoing struggle for justice and freedom of information.

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  46. The two main political parties in the Uk have done nothing to help this man. Remember this when you cast your vote on 4th July. We need free speech and support for people who are prepared to expose corruption against the wishes of the people.

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