Julian Assange claimed he was freed after pleading “guilty to journalism”, speaking today for the first time since his release to a Council of Europe committee tasked with studying the conditions of his detention. “I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today after years of imprisonment for pleading guilty to journalism,” said the WikiLeaks founder, who spent the past 14 years first locked inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London and then imprisoned in Belmars, a prison near the British capital. He was released in June. “I pleaded guilty to seeking to obtain information from a source and pleaded guilty to informing the public of the nature of that information. I pleaded not guilty to any other charges,” he continued. “I hope that my testimony today can serve to identify the weaknesses of existing safeguards and to help those whose cases are less visible, but who are equally […]
Source: News Beast
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