Julian Assange has landed back in his native Australia after entering a guilty plea at a U.S. District Court in the Northern Mariana Islands.
The Wikileaks founder pleaded guilty to one count of illegally disseminating national security material in a deal with the U.S.
Justice Department, in exchange for his freedom after five years of incarceration in the UK. Assange gestured towards photographers after touching down at Canberra Airport today and was embraced by his family, who along with friends and politicians have been campaigning for his release. “Julian needs time to recover, to get used to freedom,” his wife Stella Assange said at a news conference soon after, according to the BBC.
Assange has spent five years in a UK prison as he fought extradition to the U.S. after publishing a series of leaks that were provided to him by former intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.
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