WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was freed Wednesday after pleading guilty to violating U.S. espionage law at a trial in the U.S. overseas territory of Saipan in a deal that allowed him to return home to Australia.Assange, 52, had been avoiding extradition to the United States since 2012 and had been imprisoned in Britain since being arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he had sought refuge, in 2019.While imprisoned, he fought extradition to the United States after being accused of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defense documents on whistleblowing …READ FULL ARTICLE
