CANBERRA: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is "rediscovering" life as he tastes freedom in Australia after a five-year stretch in a London high-security prison, his wife said Thursday (Jun 27). The 52-year-old
CANBERRA: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is"rediscovering" life as he tastes freedom in Australia after a five-year stretch in a London high-security prison, his wife said Thursday .the night before, hours after pleading guilty in a US Pacific island court to a single count of revealing military secrets., he was sentenced to time already served and allowed to walk free, ending a 14-year legal struggle with the US Department of Justice.
Stella Assange said she sent her husband a video on the day of his US court hearing showing their children"jumping on the sofa" at the prospect of their father's return.He had already lived for seven years in Ecuador's London embassy to escape extradition to Sweden over sexual assault charges, which were eventually dropped.
"The president of the United States has absolute pardon power. President Biden or any subsequent president can, and in my mind should, issue a pardon to Julian Assange," said his US trial lawyer Barry Pollack.Stella Assange said her husband had pleaded"guilty to committing journalism - this case criminalises journalism".
The Australian citizen was indicted by a US federal grand jury in 2019 on 18 counts stemming from WikiLeaks' publication of a trove of national security documents.
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