Julian Assange, has fought U.S. espionage charges for fourteen years due to leaking confidential government documents through his site called “Wikileaks”.

Julian Assange was permitted to walk free and return to his home in Australia after pleading guilty to a felony charge for publishing U.S. military secrets, in a U.S. court in the Northern Mariana Islands.

Northern Mariana Islands are part of the U.S. commonwealth in the Pacific.

Court documents from the U.S. court in Saipan, the largest island and capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, confirmed the charges.

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Assange pleaded guilty to one criminal count of conspiracy to obtain documents, writing, and notes connected with the U.S. national defence and communicating these materials.

As part of the plea deal agreement with the U.S. government, withdrawal of all extradition requests, recommended sentence for time served, with no additional fines issued.

“The chilling effect is the United Stated pursuing journalism as a crime”

– Barry Pollack, U.S. lawyer for Julian Assange

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Pollack noted that Assange had acknowledged accepted that he disclosed documents from Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.

Assange also admitted his action “unfortunately, violate the terms of the Espionage Act”.

The Espionage Act is a federal law instituted shortly after the U.S. entered World War I that oversees the handling of sensitive information related to U.S. national defence.

“Mr. Assange said very clearly he believes there should be First Amendment protection for his conduct, but the fact of the matter is, as written, the Espionage Act does not have a defence for the First Amendment,” Pollack stated, referring to the U.S. constitutional right that governs freedom of speech and the press.

The WikiLeaks organization posted a statement on social media saying that Assange was preparing to fly to his native Australia.

The Australian administration of Anthony Albanese has pressed for Assange’s return.

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“Regardless of the views that people have about Mr. Assange’s activities, the case has dragged on for too long. There’s nothing to be gained by his continues incarceration, and we want him brought home to Australia. And we have engaged and advocated Australia’s interests using all appropriate channels to support a positive outcome, and I’ve done that since very early on”

– Anthony Albanese Prime Minster of Australia

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Assange’s Timeline of Events

• 2006 – Assange establishes Wikileaks – WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organization and publisher of leaked documents.

• April 2010 – Wikileaks releases footage of a US helicopter firing on civilians in Iraq which creates public outrage.

• August 2010 – Swedish prosecutors first issue an arrest warrant for Assange on two separate sexual assault allegations – which Assange claims are “without basis”

• December 2010 – Assange is arrested in London and bailed soon after. He begins appealing against the international arrest warrant

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• May 2012 – The UK’s Supreme Court rules he should be extradited to Sweden to face questioning over the allegations

• June 2012 – Assange enters the Ecuadorean embassy in London to prevent being extradited to either Sweden or USA

• August 2012 – Assange is officially granted asylum by the Ecuadorean embassy, while addressing reporters from the balcony of the embassy, demands that the US drop its “witch-hunt”

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• February 2016 – A UN panel rules that Assange has been “arbitrarily detained” by UK and Swedish authorities and calls for his release and dropping of all charges

• March 16, 2016 – WikiLeaks launched a searchable archive for over 30 thousand emails & email attachments sent to and from Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she was Secretary of State.

• May 2017 – Sweden’s director of public prosecutions announces that the sexual assault investigations into Assange are being dropped

• October 2018 – Assange given rules by the Ecuadorean embassy, Assange launches legal action against the Government of Ecuador – accusations of violating “fundamental rights and freedoms”

• November 2018 – revealed US justice department secretly filed charges against Assange

• April 2019 – The Metropolitan Police enter the embassy – with the Ecuadorean government’s permission – and detain Assange for “failing to surrender to the court” over a warrant issued in 2012

• May 2019 – Assange is sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions

• May 2019 – A federal grand jury in the US indicts Assange on 17 new alleged violations of the Espionage Act, bringing the total number of felony charges against him to 18

• May 2019 – Sweden reopens the sexual assault investigation and the US reveals its charges against Assange. Assange begins fighting extradition in the UK courts

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• November 2019 – Swedish prosecutors discontinue their rape investigation due to lack of evidence

• January 2021 – A British judge rejects a US request to extradite Assange as a result of the presumed impact on his mental health. In December, the US win their bid to overturn the ruling

• June 2022 – The UK government orders the extradition of Assange to the US, but his case continues to be tied up in appeals court

• February 2024 – Assange’s lawyers launch a final legal bid to stop his extradition at the High Court which is a higher judicial authority for England and Wales

• May 2024 – The High Court rules Assange can bring a new appeal against extradition to the US

• 19 June 2024 – Assange signs a plea agreement with the US and the High Court grants him bail

• 24 June 2024 – Assange is released from prison on bail and boards a flight to a US territory in the Pacific to finalize his plea deal

• 25 June 2024 – He formally pleads guilty to one count of breaching the Espionage Act and in return is allowed to walk free and return to his native Australia