Stella Assange, wife of the founder of Wikileaks. Julian Assange assured this Wednesday that his husband “needs time to recover.” therefore, he asked for personal space and privacy during this time.

“I ask you to please give us space so that we can be alone, so that we can find our place, so that our family can be a family; before he can speak again at any time of his choosing.” He stated this at a press conference in Canberra, the capital of Australia, which took place at 5:20 am (Central Mexico time).

“The truth is that this case is an attack on journalism. This is an attack on the public’s right to know and should never have been presented. Julian should never have spent a day in prison. But today we celebrate because today Julián is free,” he said.

In her speech, Jennifer Robinson, Assange’s lawyer, assured that the persecution of the activist is the “criminalization of journalism” and noted that the agreement establishes “a dangerous precedent that could be used against the rest of the media.”

“It is important that journalists around the world understand what a dangerous precedent this accusation has created. “A prize-winning Australian journalist, nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for these publications, spent more than five years in a maximum security prison because of this US extradition request,” he said.

For his part, American lawyer Barry Pollock said that “This is unprecedented in the United States.” use the Espionage Act to prosecute a journalist or editor” and expressed hope that it would never be used in this way again.

“Today in court the US government admitted that there was not a single person anywhere that they could think of who had actually been harmed for these publications. I hope this is the end and not just a repeat of the situation,” he said.

Julian Assange arrived in Canberra this Wednesday on a private jet. after he appeared in court in the Northern Mariana Islands (USA) to formalize his freedom in the American justice system, having spent twelve years in prison in the United Kingdom.

Charter flight VJT199 landed around 19:40 local time at Canberra International Airport. about seven hours into the flight, after departing Saipan (I. Northern Mariana Islands) around 12:10 pm on Wednesday.

Assange left the plane shortly after landing, wearing a dark suit, white shirt and tie, and with his fist raised. He greeted dozens of media members and followers who were waiting and cheering for him. In an Aeroport.

The Australian was met on the podium by his wife Stella Assange. whom he kissed and with whom he merged in an embrace, and his father, Australian architect John Shipton.

“After almost 14 years of arbitrary detention in the UK and 5 years in a maximum security prison for his pioneering work, “Julian Assange has returned home to Australia” emphasizes WikiLeaks in its X account.

Assange, who was met at the airport by his wife, Stella Assange and her two children He plans to hold a press conference in a hotel in the Australian capital in a couple of hours, his first media appearance since his release in Britain on Monday.

They waited at Canberra airport for about an hour. hundreds of journalists left their homes to document Assange’s return to his native Australia after a long journey since leaving London on Monday, which saw him make a technical stop in Bangkok on Tuesday before flying to the Northern Mariana Islands (a United States territory in the Pacific Ocean) to formalise your freedom today.

Australian activist and journalist, 52 years old. appeared early Wednesday morning in US federal court Northern Mariana Islands on Saipan, where Judge Ramona Villagomez accepted the terms agreed upon between the US Justice Department and Assange’s defense.

Under the agreement in which Assange pleaded guilty today to conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. documents, Villagomez sentenced Assange to 62 months in prisontaking into account the time already served in Belmarsh maximum security prison (UK), for which he was released.

The Australian’s defense requested the hearing be held in the US territory due to its proximity to Australia and because Assange did not want to go to the continental United States.

This episode puts the end of a 14-year saga that began in 2010 with the largest leak of classified documents in United States history, revealing, among other things, attacks on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the mistreatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

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Following the leak, Sweden issued an arrest warrant on sexual assault charges, which were later dropped. Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012 until he was arrested by British authorities in 2019. spent the last five years in a maximum security prison.

(according to information from EFE And Aristegui News)