The road leading to Assange leaving prison and the UK has been full of legal battles, campaigns and diplomatic tensions for him and his family.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has left prison in the UK after reaching a plea deal with the US over espionage charges. The 52-year-old Australian national has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents. In a post on X, WikiLeaks said Assange left Belmarsh prison on Monday morning, having been there for 1,901 days. By the afternoon he was at Stansted Airport where he boarded a plane and left the UK.
Nigel Farage is also spotted leaving the embassy at this time but refused to say whether he had met Assange. 13 August 2015 The inquiry into the sexual molestation and unlawful coercion allegations is dropped after a legal time limit passes - but the more serious rape allegation stands and the investigation remains active. 17 January 2017 Barack Obama, the outgoing US president, decides to free WikiLeaks' key whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
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