the founder of the whistleblowing website Wikileaks Julian Assange is expected to plead guilty today in connection to violating us Espionage laws it is a very complicated deal but eventually it’ll set him free and see him return home to Australia assange’s legal ordeal stretches back to 2010 14 years ago once Wikileaks leaked those classified documents they also sharing this video of Assange his flight touching down in Bangkok Thailand today he will plead guilty to one account of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified us defense documents related to the war in Afghanistan one representative from the International Federation of journalists says this is good news overall for press freedom to see Assange on his way anyway to finally being released listen to this for all that a complete dropping of all the charges would have been better I think for it to be reduced to a single charge means that the chances of this kind of uh you know hugely disproportionate legal effort being uh used to try and uh go after a journalist won’t happen again so yes I’m delighted and I hope that Julian Assange will now be able to live a straightforward Family Life uh with his wife and children Assange is expected to be officially sentenced to 62 months of time but all of that has already been served after which he will be released the leaks of those classified military documents about Afghanistan led to a major op uar Assange would spend seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy in the UK trying to stay out of prison
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is one step closer to freedom as he will plead guilty to espionage in a U.S. court.
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