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Author: Jesse Coghlan, CoinTelegraph; Compilation: Baishui, Bitchain Vision
Julian Assange was released from London prison on Monday after serving more than five years in prison and will not be extradited to the United States after agreeing to a plea agreement with authorities.
Reuters quoted documents filed by U.S. attorneys to the Northern Mariana Islands District Court on June 24, sayingWikiLeaks founders agreed to plead guilty to a charge of conspiracy to obtain and disclose U.S. defense information.
In response, he could be sentenced to 5 years and 3 months in prison – he has spent in London’s Belmarsh Prison since he was imprisoned in April 2019.
His sentencing hearing is scheduled to be held in Saipan from 11 pm on Tuesday to 9 AM local time on Wednesday, June 25.
WikiLeaks wrote in a June 24 post that Assange boarded a flight leaving the UK on Monday, preparing to return to his native Australia.
In 2010, WikiLeaks released more than 700,000 confidential U.S. documents and diplomatic telegrams about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars leaked by former military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.
The Donald Trump administration first filed charges against Assange in April 2019, who fled to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for seven years in order to avoid being extradited to Sweden for sexual assault allegations, but the charges were later dropped.
That same month, British authorities dragged him out from there and threw him to Belmarsh, where he opposed the extradition in the United States.
