Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange is set to return to Australia a free man after over a decade fighting extradition to the United States on espionage charges.
The 52-year-old Australian was arrested in April 2019 at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he had been staying since 2012.
He sought asylum at the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden on a rape allegation that he denied – and claimed was a ploy to hand him over to the US.
After his arrest, he was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions and had been in London’s maximum security Belmarsh prison ever since.
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Publish date : 2024-06-26 07:00:00
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