Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, may plead guilty
On the 25th, US media quoted US Department of Justice documents as saying that Assange, founder of the "WikiLeaks" website, may plead guilty.
WikiLeaks founder Assange released from UK prison and flies to Australia
The "WikiLeaks" website disclosed through social media on the 24th that the website's founder Assange had been released from a British prison and flew to Australia.
On June 24, local time, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a letter to a federal judge that Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has admitted to violating the Espionage Act and is expected to appear in a U.S. court in the Northern Mariana Islands in the coming days. It is reported that the plea agreement will be finalized on the 26th local time. As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors from the U.S. Department of Justice recommended that Assange be sentenced to 62 months in prison.
Assange, 52, founded the WikiLeaks website in 2006. In 2010, WikiLeaks exposed a large number of U.S. diplomatic cables and confidential U.S. military documents during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, exposing U.S. war crimes. Assange was immediately involved in a lawsuit, with the United States charging him with 17 counts of espionage and one count of improper use of computers. In 2019, Assange was arrested and sentenced to prison in the UK. Afterwards, the United States requested extradition. In June 2022, then-British Home Secretary Patel approved the extradition of Assange to the United States. Assange later appealed to overturn the extradition decision.
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