The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, expressed how pleased he is with the release of Australian journalist Julian Assange, imprisoned for showing the world the crimes committed by the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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For his part, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez, in a message on that social network, described Assange’s release as a victory for truth, after the unjust years in prison and political persecution.
Assange was released this Monday and traveled to his native Australia following an agreement with the United States government to plead guilty to a serious crime under the Espionage Act, after spending the last five years of his life in a British prison. .
According to WikiLeaks, the departure of its founder is the result of a global campaign that involved grassroots organizers, press freedom advocates, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations.
