Key Points
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday walked out of prison after he agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the US Justice Department, according to court papers filed on Monday night. Assange will plead guilty this week to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents.S)..
The deal will end his imprisonment in Britain and allow him to return home to Australia, ending a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified documents..
In 2010, WikiLeaks 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..
You might be interested in
Julian Assange’s moment of truth has arrived – and the stakes are high
18, Feb, 24If his appeal fails this week, the WikiLeaks founder could soon be on a plane towards a potential jail term of 175 years