‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks releases statement as Assange leaves UK prison

Julian Assange has left the UK prison he has spent the last five years in, and has bordered a flight back to Australia.

Assange is expected to plead guilty to a felony charge of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents, according to criminal paperwork filed in the US District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.

He will be charged with time served. The Wikileaks X account announced the Australian journalist’s freedom.

“Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.