WikiLeaks published a video Monday that confirmed its founder, Julian Assange, en route to London’s Stansted Airport and boarding a flight after being launched from a high-safety prison, the place he was once held for 5 years.

Assange is ready to come back to Australia after securing a plea deal with the Justice Division, ending a decade-long prison saga.

The fifty two-year-old used to be launched from a British prison on bail and is anticipated to plead responsible to violating U.S. espionage law. He agreed to a single rely of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified national defense paperwork. This deal permits him to come back house to Australia, credited for the five years he served, with out a new penitentiary time.

Footage launched on Monday showed Assange’s journey to the airport from jail, the place a WikiLeaks video captured him boarding a plane. He landed in Bangkok, Thailand, for refueling prior to heading to Saipan within the Northern Mariana Islands within the Western Pacific for his sentencing.

The Wikileaks founder’s spouse Stella Assange advised the Press Association that his journey from the UK to Australia, with stops, will cost $500,000. She also instructed Reuters that a fundraising campaign will probably be launched to duvet these bills.

“Whatever the views that folks have about Julian Assange and his activities, the case has dragged on for too long,” stated Australian Top Minister Anthony Albanese.

Assange’s legal battles started out in 2010 with a European arrest warrant from Sweden over sex-crime allegations, that have been later dropped. Throughout that point he spent seven years in Ecuador’s embassy in London after seeking asylum there, involved primarily that extradition to Sweden would mean subsequent extradition to the U.S.

Ultimately, Ecuador became Assange over into British custody in 2019 at which level he was detained in Belmarsh jail for breach of bail.

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