Assange is set to plead guilty to violating the Espionage Act at a U.S. court in the Northern Mariana Islands in exchange for his freedom. Here’s a refresher.
Julian Assange prepares to speak from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he was based from 2012 to 2019 while avoiding extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges unrelated to WikiLeaks. Julian Assange has left Britain for the first time in more than a decade, heading to the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, where he is expected to plead guilty to a single U.S. charge of violating the Espionage Act in exchange for his freedom.
The U.S. charges relate only to the Iraq and Afghanistan war files and diplomatic cables obtained by Manning in 2010. In 2016 WikiLeaks alsoAssange has been in prison in Britain since 2019, fighting extradition to the United States. Before that, he had been living inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012, to avoid extradition to Sweden in connection with 2010 allegations of sexual assault lodged against him by two women.
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