A timeline of the legal case involving WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
The drawn-out legal case involving WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has concluded with his guilty plea to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets.
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Julian Assange admits leaking US state secrets, walks free. Next stop: Australia
The plea is part of an agreement that is expected to free Assange to return to his native Australia within hours.
WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange declared ‘free man’ in Saipan after US plea deal
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in court in Saipan in a deal that ended a 14-year legal ordeal.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange freed by U.S. court after guilty plea
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (Reuters) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walked free on Wednesday from a court on the U.S. Pacific island territory of Saipan after pleading guilty to violating U.S. espionage law, in a deal that will see him return home to Australia.
Julian Assange Pleads Guilty to Espionage, Securing His Freedom
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a felony charge of violating the U.S. Espionage Act, securing his freedom under a plea deal that saw its final act play out in a remote U.S. courtroom in Saipan in the Western Pacific.
Who is Julian Assange, the polarizing founder of the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks?
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — He emerged on the information security scene in the 1990s as a “famous teenage hacker” following what he called an “ itinerant minstrel childhood” beginning in Townsville, Australia. But the story of Julian Assange, eccentric founder of secret-spilling website WikiLeaks, never became less strange — or less polarizing — after he jolted the United States and its allies by revealing secrets of how America conducted its wars.
Australian leaders cautiously welcome expected plea that could bring WikiLeaks founder Assange home
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian leaders cautiously welcomed an expected plea agreement that could set free Julian Assange, who was pursued for years over WikiLeaks’ publication of a trove of classified documents.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stops in Bangkok on his way to a US court and later freedom
BANGKOK (AP) — A plane believed to be carrying Julian Assange landed Tuesday in Bangkok, as the WikiLeaks founder was on his way to enter a plea deal with the U.S. government that will free him and resolve the legal case that spanned years and continents over the publication of a trove of classified documents.