The plane carrying WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange set out for Australia. This was reported by an Australian TV channel. A B C.
Assange is expected to arrive in Canberra, the capital of Australia, on Wednesday evening, June 26.
Shortly before this, the founder of WikiLeaks left The U.S. District Court building on the island of Saipan (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). Judge Ramona Manglona accepted Assange is guilty of conspiracy to obtain and distribute classified information. He received a sentence equivalent to time already served in a British prison, the court ruled.
The WikiLeaks founder has been detained at Belmarsh maximum security prison in the United Kingdom since 2019 after being deported from the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Washington has been demanding his extradition to the United States for more than five years, but Assange’s defense has made efforts to prevent this.
He was charged in the United States with crimes related to one of the largest leaks of classified information in the history of the United States.
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Source: Gazeta
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