Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrived in Australia this Wednesday (26) after pleading guilty and being released after a 14-year legal odyssey.
Upon landing in Canberra, Assange was greeted by his wife, Stella Assange.
The 52-year-old Australian was released from a maximum security prison in London on Monday afternoon (24) and had already boarded a private jet to leave the United Kingdom before the world even found out about his agreement with the United States government. United.
The activist appeared in a US court in the Northern Mariana Islands to formalize the agreement, officially pleading guilty to illegally conspiring to obtain and disclose classified information about his alleged role in one of the largest breaches of classified material in US military history. .
Assange has long harbored a deep distrust of the American government, even accusing them of planning his assassination.
The activist and his whistleblower website gained global visibility in 2010, following a series of information leaks from former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The website published a video showing a US military helicopter shooting at and killing two journalists and several Iraqi civilians in 2007. Several months later, it released more than 90,000 confidential documents from the war dating back to 2004.
(With information from Reuters)
Source: CNN Brasil
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