WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the United States, likely ending the whistleblower’s lengthy legal saga.
The tentative deal, made public in a court filing on Monday, appears to end a saga that saw the hacker-turned-whistleblower becoming a global celebrity as he revealed government secrets. Assange was later accused of sexual crimes as well as espionage, and ended up spending years hiding in an embassy and jailed in a high-security prison.Assange was born on July 3, 1971, in Queensland, Australia. He and his mother, the visual artist Christine Ann Hawkins, moved frequently.
The organization gained widespread attention in 2010 for leaks about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in the process making Assange himself internationally famous. One leak from the time, dubbed “Collateral Murder” by WikiLeaks, showed a 2007 incident in which a dozen people, including two employees of the news agency Reuters, were fatally shot from a U.S. Army helicopter.Chelsea Manning, a former U.S. soldier who had leaked hundreds of thousands of documents to WikiLeaks, was arrested in 2010.
Ecuadorian officials also said Assange and his lawyers had expressed their belief that embassy staff was spying on the whistleblower, including on behalf of the U.S. government. The accusation strained relations between the guest and the host country.In July and October of 2016, while Assange was living in the Ecuadorian Embassy, WikiLeaks published material that had been stolen from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta.
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