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Assange's lawyers argued before the British High Court that the U.S. government provided "blatantly inadequate" assurances that Assange would have the same free speech protections as an American citizen if extradited from Britain.
Assange has spent more than a decade facing the threat of extradition to the U.S., where he faces up to 175 years in prison for publishing classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. "This is a victory for Julian Assange in that he lives on to fight another day, his case lives on to fight another day. But he's not out of Belmarsh [Prison] yet, and he's not in the clear yet," says Chip Gibbons, policy director of Defending Rights & Dissent. "This could still end in him being sent to the U.S. And the person who can stop this is Joe Biden and Merrick Garland."
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We should ALL care about Assange. Journalism is NOT a crime & Assange is being criminalized & persecuted for exposing the crimes of the U.S. cabal government which even our own citizens get persecuted & WORSE whn totally innocent as in the J6ers who are STILL imprisoned while FBI "infiltraitors" continue to roam free.
Kathryn Vickeman
State Assistant
Missouri 8
CNN — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge related to his alleged role in one of the largest US government breaches of classified material, as part of a deal with the Justice Department that will allow him to avoid imprisonment in the United States, according to newly filed federal court documents.
Under the terms of the new agreement, Justice Department prosecutors will seek a 62-month sentence – which is equal to the amount of time Assange has served in a high-security prison in London while he fought extradition to the US. The plea deal would credit that time served, allowing Assange to immediately return to Australia, his native country.
The plea deal must still be approved by a federal judge, but as of Monday morning, Assange had been released from a UK prison, according to WikiLeaks.
“Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK,” WikiLeaks said a Tuesday statement.
A video uploaded by the group showed a black van traveling on a motorway followed by footage of Assange boarding a plane.
Kathryn Vickerman
Missouri 8