Julian Assange freed: Wikileaks founder to return to Australia after US plea deal
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2024
- Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. that will see him freed after a 14-year legal saga.
Assange, 52, has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defense documents, according to filings in the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.
Assange’s wife Stella said the pair will seek a pardon from the U.S. government, but said for now she’s focused on reuniting.
“I’ll really believe it when I have him in front of me and I can take him and hug him and then it will be real, you know,” she said.
The deal brings an end to a legal saga that saw Assange spend more than five years in a British high-security jail and seven years holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy fighting allegations of sex crimes in Sweden, while also fighting extradition to the U.S.
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They already ruined his life and for what, the crime of speaking TRUTHS.
That's a treasonable offense he committed . He deserves life in jail
@tralbriggs104 What's treasonous is Justin Trudeau creating political prisoners and freezing bank accounts over an unjustified and unscientific mandate. Or Biden putting Israel first over America. Or Macron arresting people for protesting peacefully. Or Netanyahu turning a blind eye to multiple intel sources and choosing to assist hamas in Oct7th. That's what treason looks like.
What Assange did is just called journalism and freepress is supposed to be protected. He received information and communicated it but I think it's pretty silly to act like he's the one who leaked / hacked the information. Someone else did that, he was just like "people deserve to know this". He's a hero and so is Snowden and Manning.
@@tralbriggs104 What's treasonous is Justin Trudeau creating political prisoners and freezing bank accounts over an unscientific mandate. Or Biden putting Israel over America. Or Macron arresting people for protesting peacefully. Or Netanyahu turning a blind eye to multiple intel sources and allowing Oct7th to happen. That's what treason looks like.
What Assange did is just called journalism and freepress is supposed to be protected. "People deserve to know". He's a hero and so is Snowden.
Life in jail for what? For revealing crimes of the military industrial complex?
@@tralbriggs104 lol enjoy ur life in a world without free speech where intelligence agencies and the military answer to no one and have no oversight or criticism. I'm sure I'll work out well for everyone
Poor man a real journalist was jailed for speaking truth how sick is that
Julian Assange is a hero. Waiting for Global News to delete this.
The american government had a Canadian arrested in Canada by the RCMP because they did not like his comments.
I believe the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's interview with the BBC significantly influenced the resolution to free Julian Assange. In this dialogue, he forthrightly addressed the political underpinnings of Assange's detention and vehemently lambasted the double standards and hypocrisy of so-called Western democracies. He denounced their ostensible advocacy for freedom and human rights abroad while perpetrating acts of terror upon their citizens through police violence, unlawful detentions, coerced alterations in sexual orientation among youths, and burdening their populace with lifelong debt.
a self styled journalist is not a journalist and when you give away the state secrets of a country that is not your own you do the time... all those who provided the info to him got jail time - it's called treason ... but by rights the media rag that printed it all should have gone under too..... as they too gave no forethought to the lives that would be destroyed all because his "fame" was more important than the lives of those putting theirs on the line for the USA while Assange and co handed the enemy their names and addresses - he is nobodies hero
@@SuperStrik9why? They reported fairly on this.
Hes a hero and should have never been locked up
I didn't expect this news today. This man suffered sooo much!
Julian was persecuted for being a journalist. What a price to pay for being a free thinker.
And he isnt the only one. Theres truth tellers in way way way worse jail conditions in countries i need not list. Theyll die in those places. Julian had fame and money behind him from supporters. I dont say that to mean he didnt suffer horrifically. He did.
This is just horrible what happened to this man. No wonder journalism has changed. So happy for him and his family
Big fan of Julian. Glad to see him released and alive. Sad to see how many years of a persons life can be stolen away from them for just speaking the truth. Congrats Julian and family, thoughts are with you.
Agreed.
Australia did nothing to secure his release. Shame on you Australia.
Thanks letting us know that detail, Australia didn't help julian be freed.
Australia is America's Puppet and has been for a long time!✊
@@annjoyce579 The Australian PM will take credit, he's a wimp.
We have no idea whats been going on behind the scenes and probably never will.
thats not exactly correct information
Exposing the war crimes of the US Empire, that's what this guy did.
He is a brave man who was silenced and punished because he spoke truth to corrupt power!
He looks good. He's alive.
I was actually surprised. I was fearing the worst.
They stole 12 years of his life from him.
To bad the people can't have all our MSM non journalist liars jailed for life
ABSOLUTELY! No REAL "journalism" for years. SHAME on MSM paid off puppets.
Funny how how the MSM are just talking about Julian now? he has been in jail for 7 tears! good job CBC
12 years.
What relief he is free!!❤
So happy for Julian and family. I pray he will have strength and happiness. Prayers have been answered. May he stay safe.
The world is not free, if you say the truth you will be in real troubles
He is free when he is on Australian soil.
I believe the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's interview with the BBC significantly influenced the resolution to free Julian Assange. In this dialogue, he forthrightly addressed the political underpinnings of Assange's detention and vehemently lambasted the double standards and hypocrisy of so-called Western democracies. He denounced their ostensible advocacy for freedom and human rights abroad while perpetrating acts of terror upon their citizens through police violence, unlawful detentions, coerced alterations in sexual orientation among youths, and burdening their populace with lifelong debt.
Will he remain free of noxious materials and accidents?
My full respect to you sir ✌
Plea deal … not exactly the best outcome. But at least this honourable man is free 👍
CBC = criminal broadcasting Corp.
Excellent!
Safe journey to Australia🦘🐨🇦🇺🙏🙌
Bring security/bodyguards.
Hope all goes well. He's served enough time.
welcome home
I will breathe a huge sigh of relief once he has been to the court and is on his last leg of his journey home. It's a disgrace that he had to make a plea deal by admitting to something he didn't do in order to be free.
He took on the MIC (Military Industrial Complex) and survived 15 years of sheer hell. Glad to see Assange freed at last. A very brave and courageous soul. God bless him and his family.
At least he will be free!
Happy for him!
This whole dreadful thing has been a disgrace, I am glad Assange is finally FREE..
In a similar case, Chinese 🇨🇳 Meng Wanzhou entered a *guilty plea in a deferred prosecution* with US 🇺🇸 prosecutors in 2021, in which she acknowledged *lies* about Huawei's Iran business.
Since she returned to China 🇨🇳, she wouldn't dare to step out.
It's not because she dares not, it's just she cannot, without her master's permission.
She left her husband and children in Canada to protect them.
The entire situation with Meng Wanzou is SUSPECT! The 2 Michael's were treated very badly yet she lived a posh life in Vancouver. I don't believe ANY of that issue, there needs to be a proper investigation. BUT there won't as long as the CCP are spread throughout Canada ad well as their militia. Trust no one!
Is this your full-time job?
@@stolidvessel2550 exactly, story could be about the North Pole, and he will somehow make it about China, not a fun guest at a dinner party
Good luck Julian, will be following your progress.
Julian Assange didn’t commit suicide.
Why a remote island to sign the deal? Sounds suspicious to me. Praying for Julian Assange safe return home to his family🙏🏻❤️ I thank Julian for allowing the world to see the truth! If not for Julian, Americans would have never known, just how corrupt our own government is.
Because it is on US territory as per Julians request. He refuses to go the United States.
Oh come on just look at today's news and the republican nominee, there's no guessing about how corrupt America is.
Yeah, sure, no one knew of the corruption before this man said something 😂
@@905royals Proof from the corrupts own documents , not from Julian’s mouth. You people are the reason this world is upside/down. You believe lies for truth, without ever doing your own deep research. I love you in Christ & Pray for your eyes to open and your ears to hear 🙏🏻❤️
Yes!!!!! Congrats Mr Assange!
For the support of truth for the sake of humanity and history. Bravo! Thanks!
This is great news,finally Julian will live free with His beautiful family!Blessings from 🇨🇦 Canada.
Stella is a saint!
MAGNIFICENT NEWS!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!
Good for you Julian.....brave man!
Hallelujah
i don't blame assange for taking the deal but i do blame 'journalists' everywhere, particularly in the west (canada), for becoming the stenographers for power that they've become. journalism is dead.
At last he released. 😢 Thanks God.
Great news
Australia, it is your duty to protect this man.
This is great news take care julian you are a hero thankyou for telling the world the truth about the governments around the world
He just released gov information
He's suppose to be the bad guy for releasing something sent to him?
Why take him to a remote island sounds very suspect.
May God continue to keep him safe. it's a shame he has to make a plea deal for his freedom when he did not do anything wrong.
Saipan isn't a "remote island". It's like guam and Hawaii. Its far enough to keep the press down and most people there don't care
Irrespective of differing opinions, how were the U.S. war crimes addressed? Even if some consider Julian Assange's actions as espionage, it is evident that war crimes were committed against innocent individuals.
Julian Assange is a great man! Hero of our time! Terrible injustice has been going on for 15 years! We criticize our forebears when someone in their time was unjustly persecute. I can think of Alan Turing and Oscar Wilde. Men punished but later honoured and pardoned long after their deaths. Going back much further, Galileo Galilei and Giordano Bruno. Then even further back Joan of Arc. And finally Māni and Jesus. Oh, and let’s mention Socrates for good measure. In times to come Julian Assange will be honoured. There will be statues erected in public places and venerated scholarships named after him. And us alive today be vilified. “For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” Hosea 8:7.
Western justice , Plea to be free .
Well, it beats being thrown out of a window or being served tea laced with Polonium, etc.
Thank God, out of the clutches of pure evil.
How great to see you.
Wonderful news. A glimmer of hope in a very dark world. 🙏 🕯
It's about time he was released great news . Beautiful that Julian is with his family now.
Australian Government should make his release date an annual public holiday.
About time! His no criminal, im so happy he can walk free after all this time. Im sad they took 14 ys of his life, for what? exposing the truth.
So happy he’s headed home. What a travesty he has been through
Thank god he is free
Thank God! 🙏🏼for healing
Australian people may be behind JA..But the Australian govt took 15 yrs to support JA.
He is a good example of what happen's when journalist's want to keep the public informed .
I’m deeply deeply relieved and overjoyed,realizing how much his unjustified and torturous condition has played heavily on my consciousness, either wishing being able to do more for his freedom or feeling guilty not doing enough. We are all so connected
God bless you Julian!! ❤❤❤
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Good job Global! How wonderful he is free, but I thank you for showing the perspective of why this is so dangerous for journalists.
He's like the opposite of Global News.
One positive news I have seen in a while.
I used to be so worried for Julian over the years. I'm extremely happy for him but equally sad when i think of what he went through over the years.
No Plea Deal for Gonzalo Lira ...
Why on a remote island??
clone
Probably no extradition laws on that island.
@@plantbasedsenior4240 Makes sense-thank you
I am really happy for Assange and his family and friends. I hope the papparazzi will find it in their minuscule hearts to give them space once the initial rush dies down. Julian deserves to live the rest of his life in peace.
He is coming home 🇦🇺👏👏👏👏👏
YAAAAAAAAY! Assange -- 1, U. S. -- 0
Criminals jail those that expose them.
tricksie my precious
Political prisoner
The only thing he’s guilty of is journalism. ❤❤❤
What a shame.
How can a foreign citizen who "committed" and offence to a foreign nation outside that nation be charged with ANYTHING?
“…get him back on American soil..”. Has he ever been on American soil?
😊good
'They'☠️ have just set a precedence 😢
Ya, well, we have censorship laws here in Canastan
He should have not pleaded guilty as he has done nothing wrong!
It was the choice between pleading guilty or dying in jail.
He's not a journalist. He's an operative.
Oh god
To Global News: Assange is an Australian citizen, and toured around Europe. He never committed a crime on US soil. The US jurisdiction of this case is quite loose, mainly depending on bilateral extradiction treaties to some countries. Some of those are "secret Security stuff". The case stinks!
this is proof that they were in on it
Not everything journalists do in collecting information for release to the public is necessarily ethical. Was bugging people's phones by newspapermen legal? I understand the US's point of view in wanting at least a nominal conviction. As for punishment, well he's punished himself pretty effectively and this will hopefully be acknowledged.
Let's get something straight... no one is free.
Freedom comes with an equal amount of responsibility.
If you're out in the woods alone, you're responsible for everything which includes the forest, your health and survival and you don't have time to think of being free.
Your thoughts will be dominated by all the responsibilities you have.
When on the other hand you are living in a community, you have to uphold standards.
You have to become skillful in order to earn the means to be able to trade with other people for goods and services.
Now, throw on taxes. The government, which nowadays doesn't even have to justify what they take from you, will force you to work under threat of imprisonment.
You won't be safe, but you'll have the illusion of safety.
Because cops are often corrupt, just like judges, and social workers and anyone with power/influence.
So how free are you to begin with?
If what you say, a few words, can have you fined, alienated, imprisoned even...
and someone else's words can have you punished too, without any wrongdoing on your part?
Then, consider why Julian Assange was a target for years.
Because, he revealed facts the government didn't want exposed.
You're paying taxes, so that the truth can be withheld from you.
You don't want certain responsibilities, and knowing something is enough to put a burden on you morally.
The people you so readily give your power to, your agency, they may not have your best interests at heart.
But, they may also conduct terrible acts on your behalf that will not be made to bear on your conscience.
It's one heck of a trade-off.
Ever see that movie "the Box"?
The story is, you press a button, with absolutely no electronic mechanism attached and no one present to be witness but yourself...
but by pressing this red button someone dies, someone you don't know, and you get a stack of money.
It's kind of like that isn't it?
You blindly hand over money, which is a measure of your time and effort, and that becomes the means by which the government has agency to manage your life and inflict terrible things on your enemies. But, may also sacrifice you in a numbers game.
Does anyone talk about this?
So, Julian Assange is free to live in the illusion which has been called "The Matrix" with the rest of us unwitting participants.
How tragic is that? I'm glad for him, but nothing has really been solved, and he did sacrifice so much to make his point which is not been realized.
If you can be free of something, it's emotional burden.
Some people use alcohol and drugs.
Some just rationalize and detach like doctors and police and anyone who faces hard reality.
And some turn to religion, or some form of spirituality and cosmic sense for release.
I just wanted to add this to my previous comment as a positive.
@@technofeeliak intresting perspective
Let's see a statue raised to this man!
So we are going to give him a big welcome home for being a computer hacker....sounds about right
live or die. in prison or not, humanity lost. the bad guys won long ago
And yet what did the freak who gave him the info wind up getting as a sentence? Hardly anything.
They're gonna swarm him or he won't make it there....or maybe nothing will happen.
Congratulations to Julian Assange and Australia! Pressure around the world did it.
Maybe America feels guilty about supporting genocides, apartheide, and ethnic cleansing.
They need a little bit of love.
Journalists used to do just what this man did - find out what's happening and report it. That's all.
But in today's nightmarish dystopia, they ruined his whole life for simply doing what generations of reporters did before hm. We all need to wake up.
Navalny also came back
I just hope he doesn't die in a mysterious accident in the next few years cause we will know who it would be. The Intel community
He is extremely lucky that he didn't do this in China and Russia.
This means that he can never enter US soil right? because he pleads guilty
The GUILTY plea is NOT valid, how can the USA transfer its laws accross the sea to some one who never committed a crime on US soil. I don't think this is the end of this saga.