Julian Assange
Julian Paul Assange is an Australian editor, publisher and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006.
He came to international attention in 2010 after WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning: footage of a US airstrike in Baghdad, US military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and US diplomatic cables.
Assange has won multiple awards for publishing and journalism.
What happened
Julian Assange was first arrested in Britain in 2010 on a European warrant over sex crime allegations reported in Sweden — those charges were later dropped.
While on bail, he took asylum in the Ecuador embassy in London, where he was holed up until 2019.
He was kicked out of the embassy, and Britain rearrested him and put him in the high-security Belmarsh prison.
After five years of life in jail, the U.S. entered into a plea deal with Mr. Assange, that would set him free.
The 52-year-old will plead guilty in the espionage case before a U.S. federal judge in Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. Commonwealth territory in the western Pacific.
According to U.S. and British media, Mr. Assange is expected to be sentenced for about five years, the time he has already served in Britain
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