{"id":40547,"date":"2024-06-25T11:04:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T06:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=40547"},"modified":"2024-06-25T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T06:11:06","slug":"julian-assange-released-from-prison-wikileaks-says-after-striking-deal-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/julian-assange-released-from-prison-wikileaks-says-after-striking-deal-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released from prison after striking deal with US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-index-0\" class=\"storyParagraph\">\n<p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was released from a London prison on Monday, June 24, after he sealed a plea deal with the US Justice Department in a nearly 14-year-old espionage case that centered around the publication of several classified <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/new-registration-policy-for-drones-govt-makes-registration-mandatory-for-operating-drones\/\">defense<\/a> documents, including the wrongdoings in Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and exposing government secrets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7a00838cb0026f95bb8ed98485d67e55458642f1\/0_0_2545_3300\/master\/2545.jpg?width=480&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none\" alt=\"A filing from the US Department of Justice to the US district court describes a plea deal regarding Julian Assange\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-index-1\" class=\"storyParagraph\">\n<p>After his plea deal with the United States, Julian Assange was taken from Belmarsh prison, where he had spent five years, to London&#8217;s Stansted airport. The 52-year-old Australian was later seen boarding a flight and flying to an unnamed destination. After his release, Julian Assange will be free to fly back to his native Australia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/71e94ab6de14f8b755776b53ccf9a7e5dbe3070f\/40_0_1005_603\/master\/1005.jpg?width=480&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none\" alt=\"Screenshot from the video of Julian Assange boarding a flight at London Stansted airport.\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-2\" class=\"storyParagraph\">\n<p>Later this week, Julian Assange is expected to appear in a US federal court in the Mariana Islands on Wednesday and plead guilty to unlawfully obtaining classified national defense information, allowing him to walk free and ending multiple-country spanning legal saga, the Justice Department in its filing in court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was released from a London prison on Monday, June 24, after he sealed a plea deal with the US Justice Department in a nearly 14-year-old espionage case that centered around the publication of several classified defense documents, including the wrongdoings in Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and exposing government secrets. After his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":40548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19005,19006,19007],"class_list":["post-40547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-julian-assange","tag-julian-assange-released-from-prison","tag-julian-assange-released-from-prison-wikileaks-says-after-striking-deal-with-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40550,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40547\/revisions\/40550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}