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WikiLeaks Founding Team, Julian Assange has raised more than half of the more than $650,000. that the activist must pay for the private plane he boarded in London
WikiLeaks Founding Team, Julian Assange has raised more than half of the more than $650,000. that the activist must pay for the private plane he boarded in London on Monday that will take him to his country of Australia as a “free man.”
According to the crowdfunding site Crowdfunder, the Free Assange Campaign group raised 59% of £520,000 ($659,000 or €616,000), which the activist must reimburse the Australian government that paid for the private jet. In Mexican pesos it is 11 million 979 thousand.
On the fundraising campaign page, Assange’s team states that obliged to return money for flight VJT199 in which he has been travelling since he was released on Monday from the maximum-security Belmarsh prison in London after reaching an agreement with the US Justice Department.
Your extraordinary donation of £313,657 enabled Julian Assange to reach Saipan. Can you help us cover the rest of it #FlightofFreedom to Australia: £206,343 to bring it home. https://t.co/bBkYB5mycE
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 26, 2024
“Moreover, after 14 years of imprisonment, including five years in a maximum security prison, “Julian’s health requires urgent restoration,” explains the campaign for Assange’s release.
The plane used by Taylor Swift
The private jet he travels on has gained worldwide fame thanks to transportation of Taylor Swift from Tokyo to the USA for the Super Bowl in February. This is the Bombardier Global Express aircraft that thousands of fans from around the world have been watching to see if the Swift can arrive in Los Angeles in time for the Super Bowl, one of the biggest sporting events in the United States.
The singer drove twelve hours to support her partner. American football player Travis Kelce, member of the Kansas City Chiefs, who won the title by defeating the San Francisco 49ers.
Photo: EFE
Swift’s decision was criticized by followers and environmental groups for the huge carbon footprint it produced crossed halfway around the world to attend the game.
Assange’s flight
Assange left the US territory of the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean this Wednesday on a flight around 12:10 local time. It is scheduled to arrive around 19:00 local time in Canberra.
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Assange, 52 years old, He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on Monday. after reaching an agreement with the US Department of Justice and boarded a plane to the Northern Mariana Islands, stopping in Bangkok on Tuesday.
Today in court in the Mariana Islands, Assange pleaded guilty to one criminal charge. conspiracy to obtain and disclose classified U.S. documents and in return Judge Ramona Villagomez Manglona imposed a sentence allowing him to return to Australia “as a free man”.
Assange is expected to offer press conference he once landed in the Australian capital as a “free man.”
(according to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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