WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was released from a UK prison on Tuesday morning, his team has said. He has spent five years in the Belmarsh Prison in London while fighting extradition to the US, where he was indicted on 18 counts of disseminating classified information.
Assange has agreed to plead guilty to one count of espionage in a plea deal. He should not have been charged at all. What they have done is criminalised journalism.
[Posted at the
SpookyWeather2 blog, June 26, 2024.]
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