(26 Jun 2024)
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Saipan, Northern Mariana Island – 26 June 2024
1. Various of mountain
2. Taxi driver Awlad Hossain explaining history of mountain
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Awlad Hossain, taxi driver:
"This is a difficult case, you know? This is a very difficult case, because the U.S. Federal Court , they’re going to discuss, you know. Nobody can know anything because it is the Federal Court (to) decide. Federal Court justice, you know. It’s actually OK, very good justice. So they (Julian Assange) already go back to fly. I don’t know how long they are going (to take) to go there. They are going to Australia or Japan?"
4. Close of hands
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Awlad Hossain, taxi driver:
"Local people don’t care about this (case), because this is under the Federal Court justice, Federal Court section. This is not the local section, you know. So local people don’t care about this one. This is the Federal Court justice, Federal Court takes care of everything. So this is not local affecting. Nobody thinking about this."
6. Wide of sea
7. Various of Hiromi Matagolai, wedding planner who came to the beach for wind surfing
8. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Hiromi Matagolai, local resident:
"Everyone has different standards, but in my opinion, it hasn’t been a talking point and I don’t think people are that interested. Possibly later today or tomorrow, it might spread, but I don’t see it as topic which people talk about crazily."
9. Various of sea
STORYLINE:
The surprise ending of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s yearslong legal battle with U.S. prosecutors failed to shake up the peaceful island of Saipan on Wednesday, as local residents went about their day as usual.
Assange entered his plea in a U.S. district court in Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, as the American commonwealth in the Pacific is relatively close to Assange’s native Australia and accommodated his desire to avoid entering the continental United States.
"Local people don’t care about this (case), because this is under the Federal Court justice, Federal Court section. This is not the local section," taxi driver Awlad Hossain told the Associated Press.
Windsurfer Hiromi Matogolai, who came to the beach with her surf board, said it hadn’t been a talking point.
"I don’t think people are that interested," she told the AP.
Assange returned to his homeland of Australia aboard a charter jet on Wednesday, hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that concludes a drawn-out legal saga.
AP Video shot by Mayuko Ono
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