Julian Assange returns home to Australia a free man after U.S. plea deal
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrived in his home country of Australia a free man on Wednesday after pleading guilty to conspiracy in a U.S. court.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned home to Australia a free man Wednesday after pleading guilty in a deal that ended his yearslong legal battle over the publication of U.S. military secrets.
Assange’s plane, tracked online by thousands, touched down in the Australian capital of Canberra at 7:37 p.m. (5:37 a.m. ET), data from the flight-tracking platform Flightradar24 showed.
He embraced his wife and father and raised his clenched fist in salute to his cheering supporters.
“Free at last,” WikiLeaks said in a post on X.
It was the end of a round-the-world journey that began Monday when Assange left Britain, where he had spent more than five years in prison as he fought extradition to the United States.
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