In accordance with a plea bargain with the United States, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, will be freed from jail, according to information that was disclosed on Monday.
According to court records, the journalist who has won several awards and who has been incarcerated for the last five years in the infamous Belmarsh jail in London, which is a maximum-security facility, will enter a guilty plea to the charge of breaching the Espionage Act. However, he will not be sentenced to any time in jail in the United States.
Assange, who is an Australian citizen and has never resided in the United States, is scheduled to make an appearance in court in the Northern Mariana Islands, which are a territory of the United States. It is anticipated that he would return to Australia if he is officially released from jail.
The Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where Assange had been seeking shelter since 2012, was the location where British authorities made the arrest that led to his incarceration in Belmarsh Prison. Assange has been there since 2019.
During the administration of former President Donald Trump, former Secretary of State and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Mike Pompeo increased the prosecution against Julian Assange. He referred to WikiLeaks as "a non-state hostile intelligence service."
It has been alleged that Pompeo and other top officials from the Central Intelligence Agency discussed plots to kidnap and kill Assange, which Pompeo has denied. Pompeo and his colleagues were also accused of monitoring journalists and attorneys who visited with the founder of WikiLeaks in the Ecuadorian Embassy.
A lawsuit about the monitoring of Assange's guests was filed against Pompeo in November 2022, and he was captured on video receiving the documents for the case.
According to court records, the journalist who has won several awards and who has been incarcerated for the last five years in the infamous Belmarsh jail in London, which is a maximum-security facility, will enter a guilty plea to the charge of breaching the Espionage Act. However, he will not be sentenced to any time in jail in the United States.
Assange, who is an Australian citizen and has never resided in the United States, is scheduled to make an appearance in court in the Northern Mariana Islands, which are a territory of the United States. It is anticipated that he would return to Australia if he is officially released from jail.
The Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where Assange had been seeking shelter since 2012, was the location where British authorities made the arrest that led to his incarceration in Belmarsh Prison. Assange has been there since 2019.
During the administration of former President Donald Trump, former Secretary of State and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Mike Pompeo increased the prosecution against Julian Assange. He referred to WikiLeaks as "a non-state hostile intelligence service."
It has been alleged that Pompeo and other top officials from the Central Intelligence Agency discussed plots to kidnap and kill Assange, which Pompeo has denied. Pompeo and his colleagues were also accused of monitoring journalists and attorneys who visited with the founder of WikiLeaks in the Ecuadorian Embassy.
A lawsuit about the monitoring of Assange's guests was filed against Pompeo in November 2022, and he was captured on video receiving the documents for the case.
