Julian Assange is back on European soil. When last here, he was behind bars.
Julian Assange has given evidence about his years of incarceration in a high-security UK prison, after the United States charged him under the Espionage Act.
"Justice for me is now precluded because the US government insisted … that I cannot file in the European Court of Human Rights or a Freedom of Information request." "The criminalisation of news gathering activities is a threat to investigative journalism everywhere. "While some of WikiLeaks' disclosures, especially those released in un-redacted form, could have posed a threat to the personal safety of informers, intelligence sources, and secret service personnel, despite the significant lapse of time, no evidence has emerged to suggest that anyone has been harmed as a result of them," PACE noted.
In June this year, in the US Pacific territory courtroom in Saipan, District Judge Ramona Manglona sentenced Assange to five years and two months, the time he had already spent in prison in the United Kingdom fighting extradition to the United States, and said he was free to leave.Julian Assange's plea deal marks a new chapter in a long-running saga that saw a Townsville kid take on the United States Department of Justice.
Assange's stay in the Ecuadorian embassy was dramatically cut short in 2019 when UK police entered the embassy and detained him, placing him in the country's high-security Belmarsh prison. He would be detained in Belmarsh for five years.Julian Assange had been convicted under the US Espionage Act and faced extradition to the US. His plea of guilty to one count under the Espionage Act ensured his freedom.
WikiLeaks went on to release a series of further explosive leaks which caused significant embarrassment to the US and its allies.
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