Assange’s trial was held in the Northern Mariana Islands District Court, a US territory near the Asian coast of the Pacific Ocean.
Answering some questions from district judge Ramona Manglona, Assange accepted the charge of “violating the espionage law” in accordance with the agreement he reached with the USA.
In accordance with the agreement, it was decided that Assange would destroy all documents he provided to Wikileaks.
According to the agreement, the WikiLeaks founder is expected to be sentenced to 62 months in prison, but will be allowed to go to Australia, taking into account the time he spent in prison in England.
ASSANGE’S CASE PROCESS
WikiLeaks, founded by Julian Assange, published 251,000 classified documents on October 28, 2010, which also provided evidence of crimes committed by the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Assange was taken into custody on April 11, 2019, from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he took refuge in June 2012, and was arrested for “violating the conditions of release on bail” and was taken to Belmarsh Prison in London.
The USA requested the extradition of Assange from the UK, and the British Supreme Court asked for assurances from the USA that Assange would not be sentenced to death and that he would be given a fair trial.
In the statement made last night, it was stated that Julian Assange will be allowed to leave England, where he has been detained for 5 years, to go to his country, Australia, as a result of the agreement reached with the USA to accept the charge of “violating the espionage law”.
(AA)
