Founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange arrived in the Northern Mariana IslandsUS territory in the Pacific Ocean where they plan appear in court formalize agreement with the government of Joe Biden, which will allow him to be released and return to his native Australia.
The plane on which Assange was traveling, VistaJet charter flight VJT199, arrived at 06:16 local time on Wednesday in Saipan, the largest island and capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, according to Flightradar, a portal that specializes in tracking air routes. .
The plane landed in Saipan after a six-hour flight from Bangkok, where Assange spent about eight hours and where he arrived for a technical stop after released on Monday from the maximum security prison where he was being held in the United Kingdom.
“NOW: Julian Assange arrived on US territory on the island of Saipan to formalize the declaration agreement guilt that should never have happened“WikiLeaks published on X.
Assange pleads guilty to the charges
The WikiLeaks founder is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. local time. plead guilty to one of the charges brought against him by the United States for the largest leak of secret documents in the country’s history, which occurred in 2010.
According to a letter sent to the court by the US Department of Justice, the appearance will take place in the Mariana Islands due to Assange’s opposition to traveling to the continental United States and the court’s proximity to Australia.
During the trial, the agreement reached by Assange’s defense and the US Department of Justice will be formalized – with the approval of the judge.
A car carrying a message of support for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange drives past the High Court on the day of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing in London, UK, May 20, 2024. Photo: Reuters
It found that Assange would admit his guilt in exchange for a 62-month prison sentence he had already served at Belmarsh maximum security prison in the UK.
The agreement states that you will receive credit for time worked, so Assange will be released after trial and he will be able to go to his native Australia, where his wife Stella and two children are waiting for him.
There was not the slightest possibility of a fair trial of Assange in the US: former Ecuadorian consul in London
Fidel Narvaez, former Ecuadorian consul in London: stated in “Aristegui En Vivo” that there was not the slightest possibility of a fair trial for Julian Assange in the US, given that he was charged under the Espionage Act, so people prosecuted under these articles have no chance of challenging the public interest in his defense .
What information did Julian Assange reveal?
Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006, creating a “fake letter delivery” website for potential sources, a site that rose to prominence in April 2010 when he published a secret video showing a 2007 US helicopter attack that killed a dozen people. Iraqi capital Baghdad, including two journalists from Reuters.
He also published more than 90,000 classified US military documents about the war in Afghanistan.
In addition to approximately 400,000 classified US documents about the Iraq War and 250,000 classified diplomatic cables from US embassies around the world.