Julian Assange’s Plea Deal With The United States Was Completed Before A U.S. Federal Judge Wednesday On The U.S. Possession Of The Mariana Islands.
By Joe Lauria, Consortium News
After formalizing his plea agreement with the United States at a U.S. federal court on the Mariana Islands Wednesday, Julian Assange flew to his native Australia, a newly liberated man.
![photo: Assange on his flight to freedom from London. WikiLeaks via X.](https://progressivehub.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/6829a24_2024-06-25t092200z-958357030-rc29i8avpnxg-rtrmadp-3-usa-assange-scaled-uai-258x145.jpg)
The publisher and journalist, who did more than anyone in the past 20 years to expose U.S. crimes to a world saturated in U.S. propaganda obscuring them, was expected to speak publicly for the first time since his release in Canberra, the Australian capital. [He did not appear at Canberra press conferences on Wednesday and Thursday.]
This was the scene at the airport in Canberra when Assange arrived Wednesday night:
JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE!!
Watch here: https://t.co/7PlI9fnSMG#AssangeFreed #JournalismIsNotACrime pic.twitter.com/Kpbh63CCCB
— Free Assange – #FreeAssange (@FreeAssangeNews) June 26, 2024
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