The publication of US military and diplomatic documents on website WikiLeaks has been described as 'one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States'.
US authorities have agreed to drop their demand for Julian Assange to be extradited from the UK after reaching a plea deal with the WikiLeaks founder. In return for pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information, Assange will be sentenced to time served, 62 months - the time he has already spent in a British prison. Once the guilty plea is accepted by a judge, the 52-year-old will be free to return to Australia, the country of his birth.
American prosecutors had alleged that Assange put lives at risk when he helped former US army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks put online in 2010. He then spent years hiding out in the Ecuadorian embassy before his arrest in May 2019, where he has since been held at Belmarsh maximum security prison in south London.
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