The founder of the WikiLeaks site was released after reaching an agreement with US Justice.
The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange landed this Wednesday in Canberrahis hometown, on a private plane after having formalized the judicial process in front of a US court in Saipan and being released after five years in a prison in the United Kingdom.
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Journalist pleaded guilty to espionage He faced a court in the Northern Mariana Islands, in exchange for his freedom, and traveled back to the capital of Australia. Over there, media and followers They were waiting and cheering for him at the airport when he arrived.
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Assange is expected to provide a press conference in a hotel in the Australian capital in the next few hours, being his first statement to the media since he was declared free.
How the agreement was reached for the release of Julian Assange
The momentum in favor of a deal accelerated earlier this year. In February, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sounded impatient, warning the United States that “this case cannot drag on indefinitely.” And the Australian Parliament passed a motion demanding an end to the persecution against the founder of WikiLeaks.
British prosecutors said Tuesday that they were “first informed in March of the possibility that Assange will agree to plead guilty to resolve the issue of your extradition” of the United Kingdom, claimed by the United States.
The United States ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy“talked about it in recent months” and emphasized that “there was a way to solve this”, he told the AFP agency Jared Mondscheinresearch director of the Center for American Studies at the University of Sydney.
