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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
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 act charges.”
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ARCHIVE: London – 20 May 2024
3. STILL a protester holds a poster of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange outside the High Court
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Fort Pierce, Florida – 24 June 2024
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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ARCHIVE: London – 5 February 2016
5. Mid of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walking out onto the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy
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Fort Pierce, Florida – 24 June 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Tucker, The Associated Press:
“From the U.S. government’s perspective, he’s already been in prison for several years, and so they believe that this time served punishment is actually a reflection of the crime that was committed. And so they don’t view it from their perspective as letting him off the hook, although the net effect is he does not have to come to the United States to face charges.”
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ARCHIVE: London – 13 February 2018
7. Various of Assange’s supporters outside Ecuadorian embassy
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Fort Pierce, Florida – 24 June 2024
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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ARCHIVE: London – 7 February 2011
9. Assange walks towards court entrance arriving to fight extradition bid over sex crimes allegations
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Fort Pierce, Florida – 24 June 2024
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, given the hesitancy and, reticence of many of the of the British authorities in terms of letting him come to the United States. So, this is a way to really kind of end this saga.”
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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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