WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the Justice Department that will free him from prison.
Assange is scheduled to appear in the federal court in the Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Western Pacific, to plead guilty to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defense information, the Justice Department said in a letter filed in court.
The deal ensures that Assange will admit guilt while also sparing him from any additional prison time. He had after Swedish authorities sought his arrest on rape allegations before being locked up in the United Kingdom. Assange has been heralded by many around the world as a hero who brought to light military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among the files published by WikiLeaks was a video of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack by American forces in Baghdad that killed 11 people, including two Reuters journalists.The Justice Department’s indictment unsealed in 2019 accused Assange of encouraging and helping steal diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks published in 2010.
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