Julian Assange released after five years in prison

Julian Assange regains his freedom. A plane takes him to American territory on Tuesday June 25, where he will be tried. The founder of Wikileaks is released after 1,901 days in prison and 14 years of an extraordinary legal saga. It is the epilogue of a long battle for his family and loved ones. A freedom acquired thanks to an agreement to plead guilty with the American justice system. The Australian would face 175 years in prison in the United States for making public more than 700,000 confidential documents on American military and diplomatic activities.

Refugee in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for seven years, then incarcerated in the United Kingdom in 2019, he had obtained support around the world. His country today welcomes his release. He is scheduled to appear Wednesday, June 26, in federal court in the Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory in the Pacific. He should be sentenced to 62 months in prison, a sentence already served in pre-trial detention.