WikiLeaks’ Assange to be freed after pleading guilty to US Espionage Act charge

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WikiLeaks’ Assange to be freed after pleading guilty to US Espionage Act charge
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The deal could end his imprisonment in Britain and allow him to return home to Australia.

WikiLeaks in 2010 released hundreds of thousands of classified US military documents on Washington’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - the largest security breach in US military history.

Assange is due to be sentenced to 62 months of time already served at a hearing on the island of Saipan at 9 am local time on June 25. He is expected to return home after that hearing.WikiLeaks in 2010 released hundreds of thousands of classified US military documents on Washington’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - the largest security breaches of their kind in US military history - along with swaths of diplomatic cables.

The charges against Assange sparked outrage among his many global supporters who have long argued that he, as the publisher of WikiLeaks, should not face charges typically used against federal government employees who steal or leak information.

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