Julian Assange's family plan to sit back and have some beer and champagne should all go to plan and he is soon back in Australia.
Gabriel Shipton says he knew for weeks that his brother Julian Assange was about to be released from the UK's high-security Belmarsh Prison and that the WikiLeaks founder was both "excited and anxious" about his looming freedom.
Before he makes it back to Australia, Assange still has to face a US judge in the Northern Mariana Islands on Wednesday morning, the closest US jurisdiction to Australia. While the plea deal has been done with the DOJ, some Americans are still unhappy Assange, could be freed, former US vice-president Mike Pence among them."Julian Assange endangered the lives of our troops in a time of war and should have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," Mr Pence tweeted on Tuesday.
While Mr Shipton remains cautious, he thanked world leaders for rallying around the cause to free his brother, especially Ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd and UK High Commissioner Stephen Smith.He said the Australian government played a key role in putting pressure on others to release Assange ahead of an appeal in early July, in which Mr Shipton felt the DOJ might face an embarrassing trial in its efforts to extradite Assange.
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