Julian Assange is a free man .

The founder of Wikileaks , accused of having stolen and disclosed secret information taken from the databases of US institutions through his organization, left the United Kingdom and the maximum security penitentiary near London where he remained imprisoned for five years. All after pleading guilty and reaching an agreement with the American justice system.

The deal will allow him to avoid imprisonment in the United States and return to Australia . From what we understand, however, the plea agreement will have to be approved by a federal judge. For this reason, before reaching his country of origin, he will make a stop on the American territory of the Northern Mariana Islands. From what we learn, in exchange for the guilty plea, Assange will be formally inflicted 62 months in prison, or 5 years, which the activist has, however, already spent behind bars. So he is officially free.

«Assange, after more than five years in a 2x3 meter cell, isolated 23 hours a day, will soon be reunited with his wife Stella Assange and their children, who only knew their father from behind bars», we read in a released note. from Wikileaks.

Assange's case has been dragging on for some time. The 52-year-old was accused of "conspiracy" after the publication of approximately 700,000 classified documents relating to US military and diplomatic activities since 2010.

(Unioneonline)