Assange will receive a sentence of time served, which equals the amount of time he has already spent in a British prison, in exchange for admitting guilt to one count of conspiracy to obtain and divulge material related to national defense. This is stated in court documents.
The 52-year-old is free to go back to Australia, where he was born, if the judge accepts his guilty plea.
WikiLeaks stated in a post on X that Assange departed Belmarsh on Monday morning following the High Court’s granting him bail. He arrived at Stansted Airport in the afternoon, boarded a jet, and took off.
He will soon be reunited with his wife Stella Assange and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars, after spending more than five years alone in a 2 by 3 meter cell for 23 hours a day, according to the organization.
In addition, Mrs. Assange posted a video montage of her husband getting into a car and subsequently boarding an aircraft on social media.When Assange assisted former US army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in stealing diplomatic cables and military papers that WikiLeaks posted online in 2010, US prosecutors claimed that Assange put lives in danger.
His extradition has been the subject of a legal dispute in the UK; in 2012, he visited the Ecuadorean Embassy in London before being imprisoned at Belmarsh Prison.
