“It’s a huge relief,” reacts Antoine Vey, one of his lawyers

The founder of WikiLeaks has reached a plea agreement with the American justice system under the terms of which he will be released after five years of pre-trial detention in the United Kingdom.

“It’s a huge relief”reacts Master Antoine Vey, one of Julian Assange’s lawyers after the agreement to plead guilty concluded with the American justice system under the terms of which he will regain his freedom after five years of pre-trial detention in the United Kingdom. “He pleaded guilty, but what matters is that he is free”comments the lawyer.

Julian Assange was prosecuted for having exposed, from 2010, more than 700,000 confidential documents relating to American military and diplomatic activities, in particular in Iraq and Afghanistan. “It’s a huge relief for all the people around the world, there are obviously very many of them, whether journalists, activists, NGOs, lawyers, jurists, finally hundreds of millions of people who followed the fate of Assange and who, today, for the first time in fifteen years, saw him in this video which was released by WikiLeaks walking in the open and getting on a plane”he explained.

The WikiLeaks founder, detained since 2019, took a plane to London to appear in federal court in the Mariana Islands, a US Pacific territory. “For those who saw him in extremely difficult conditions at the Bellemare high security prison, it is a magnificent image and we imagine that he will finally be able to see his children again, be able to read the books he wants, to be able to choose the food that he wants to eat and it will be, I hope a new life for Assange after Assange’s first life”hoped his lawyer.

Julian Assange negotiated a guilty plea agreement with the American justice system which demanded his extradition. “We must not focus on this judicial agreement which has the merit of existing and which has the merit of giving him back this freedom”says Master Antoine Vey,

For Julian Assange’s lawyer, this release “is also an opportunity to twist the neck of this mythology”according to which WikiLeaks put American citizens in danger. “No person was put in danger by his information. Moreover, the United States never supported him and today they are concluding an agreement which clearly shows that this has never been the case”says Master Antoine Vey, “Today, he is released. What we should be happy about is that he will be able to regain his freedom. There will be a time of analysis, but clearly, what an ordeal, what a martyrdom he had to suffer personally for having done something which is simply to spread true information”he estimated.