Julian Assange has been granted bail by the High Court in London and released
WikiLeaks has published a photo of its founder, Julian Assange, from inside the plane he boarded in the United Kingdom after leaving Belmarsh prison on Monday.
«Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of June 24, after having spent time there
1 901 days. The High Court in London granted him bail and he was released at Stansted Airport in the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and left the United Kingdom.
In this way, WikiLeaks announced, through the social network , isolated 23 hours a day”, reunite with his wife Stella Assange and his children.
Regarding the news, the Cuban President, Miguel Díaz-Canel, stated in X that “the long and cruel punishment imposed on him for his denunciations of imperial crimes will remain in the memory of the people as proof of how little his jailers in freedom of the press.
How was this possible? WikiLeaks states that the extensive global campaign in favor of Assange “created the space for a long period of negotiations with the United States Department of Justice, which has led to an agreement that has not yet been formally closed.”
American media are more specific in pointing out the existence of an agreement with the United States, according to which the journalist would have pleaded guilty, in exchange for a sentence of 62 months in prison; that is, the same time spent in the maximum security prison in the United Kingdom, since he was arrested on April 11, 2019, after being taken by police forces from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he had sought asylum since June 19, 2012.
According to the AP, he is scheduled to appear in federal court in the Mariana Islands, a US Commonwealth located in the Western Pacific, to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to illegally obtain and disseminate confidential information. of national defense, which must be approved by a judge, thus ending the criminal case and the persecution.
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