(25 Jun 2024)
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ARCHIVE: London – 19 May 2017
1. Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, raising fist on balcony of Ecuador embassy
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Fort Pierce, Florida – 24 June 2024
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Tucker, The Associated Press:
“The Justice Department has disclosed the Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, has reached a plea agreement with the federal government that will allow him to avoid any additional prison time, and will also allowed to return to his native Australia. This deal is the culmination of a years long criminal case that really became, a matter of international intrigue and a real saga that played out across multiple continents. The US government have been trying for years to extradite him to face espionage charges.”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Tucker, The Associated Press:
‘The hearing is taking place in federal court, in side in the Mariana Islands, and that’s because of its proximity to Australia and because of Assange’s opposition to travel to the continental United States.’
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Tucker, The Associated Press:
‘This case relates to the distribution of disclosure by Wikileaks in 2010 of military and diplomatic cables from Army Private Chelsea Manning. And the allegation from the Justice Department is that Julian Assange effectively helped Chelsea Manning break into a government computer and solicited classified information that was then published. And from the perspective of Justice Department, that’s against the law.”
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Tucker, The Associated Press:
“I think this deal was a recognition that this was a very complicated case that really straddled, international borders. And I think that’s one of the things that really makes this case kind of notable. This was never going to be an easy and easy sell to a jury, and it was never going to be an easy sell to actually get him here, from the United Kingdom."
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ARCHIVE: London – 1 May 2019
11. STILL Buildings are reflected in the window as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taken from court, where he appeared on charges of jumping British bail seven years ago
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ARCHIVE: London – 20 May 2024
12. STILL a protester holds a poster of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange outside the High Court
STORYLINE:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will resolve a long-running legal saga over the publication of a trove of classified documents.
Assange is scheduled to appear in U.S. federal court in the Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Western Pacific, to plead guilty to an Espionage Act charge.
Assange is expected to be sentenced to the five years he has already spent in a high-security British prison while fighting to avoid extradition to the U.S. to face charges.
In a statement posted on X, WikiLeaks applauded the announcement, saying it was grateful for “all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom.”
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