Havana, June 25 (EFE).- The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, celebrated the recent release of the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, after spending five years imprisoned in a British prison for revealing classified information from the United States Government. about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“The long and cruel punishment that was imposed on him for his denunciations of imperial crimes will remain in the memory of the people as proof of how little his jailers believe in freedom of the press,” the Cuban ruler wrote in X.
In a message on the same social network, the Foreign Minister of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez, showed his “satisfaction” with the news.
“With satisfaction we learned that Julian Assange will be released, a victory for the truth, after the unjust years in prison and political persecution for showing the world the crimes committed by the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq,” he noted.
The US justice system accused Assange of up to 18 crimes for violating the Espionage Act due to one of the largest leaks of classified information in US history in 2010.
The revelations included, among others, secrets from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as data on detainees at the Guantanamo base in Cuba.
Under the agreement reached with the Department of Justice, Assange, 52, of Australian nationality, will plead guilty to a single charge of conspiring to illegally obtain and disseminate classified information, allowing him to return to Australia after having spent five years in a British prison. EFE
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