In somewhat unexpected information leakage, WikiLeaks mastermind Julian Assange is now a free man being released from a U.S. court in Saipan and heading back home to Australia.
Julian Assange finally came to the end of his long ordeal with the law when he recently admitted to a single count of espionage as arrived at by the U. S. Department of Justice and in exchange for which all other charges were drooped.
Assange’s private plane departed for Canberra soon after the 52-year-old exited the court; he pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to obtain and disclose classified documents of the U. S. District Judge Ramona Manglona subsequently said that that he deserved time served, which means that he would only be ordered to serve the time he took fighting extradition in a U. K. prison; five years and two months.
This was a killjoy for her, or any enthusiastic reader of the script because, with this pronouncement, it seems that you will be able to walk out of this courtroom a free man, the judge said to Assange, who came to the hearing in the black robe and glasses accompanied by his lawyers and Australia’s ambassador to the United States and the former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
He had said that the Espionage Act violates the First Amendment Provision before accepting that his activities were unlawful. In the agreement, he shall obliterate WikiLeaks’ data that has been tendered to him.
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described the hearing as a ‘welcome development’ noting that the government had a positive outcome.
