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Julian Assange Arrives Back In Australia After Entering Guilty Plea
Julian Assange has landed back in his native Australia after entering a guilty plea at a U.S. District Court in the Northern Mariana Islands.
The Wikileaks founder pled guilty to one count of illegally disseminating national security material in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department, in exchange for his freedom after five years of incarceration in the UK. The 2010 dump of more than 500,000 secret government, military and diplomatic documents and other reports connected to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan caused huge reverberations around the world. He took asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy between 2012 and 2019, but was taken to HMP Belmarsh for breaking UK bail condition law and was then hit with another conspiracy charge by the U.S., keeping him in jail as he fought extradition.
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