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WikiLeaks founder Assange freed in US plea deal

WikiLeaks founder Assange freed in US plea deal

  • Since 2010 Assange has become a hero to free speech campaigners and a villain to those who thought he had endangered US security and intelligence sources
  • Australian-born Assange spent more than five years in a British high-security jail and seven holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London as he fought accusations of sex crimes in Sweden & battled extradition to the US, where he faced 18 criminal charges
By AFP ·