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@zephyreks@lemmy.mlM to World News@lemmy.ml • 11 months ago

‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US

www.aljazeera.com

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‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US

www.aljazeera.com

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Assange to plead guilty to one charge of espionage and return home to Australia after decades fighting US extradition.
  • @randon31415@lemmy.world
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    13•11 months ago

    How many years would his prison sentence have been if he was extradided the year he fled to the embassy? I feel like he would have been out by now. Wasn’t he leaking early Iraq war corruption stuff? That was 20 years ago.

    • @Kayel@aussie.zone
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      He didn’t leak, he published.

      That’s what’s so concerning about the case. The USA tried to persecute an Australian citizen working out of the EU for publishing information.

      If precedent was set they could kidnap anyone from sovereign countries based on US law

    • AtHeartEngineer
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      21•11 months ago

      He might have been epsteined though

      • Random Dent
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        7•11 months ago

        IIRC he had some kind of insurance file against that, I think there used to be some encrypted file you could download from Wikileaks and if he died the password would be released.

        No idea what it was (if anything, it could have just been a bluff of course) but it seems to have had the desired effect so far.

      • @Kayel@aussie.zone
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        6•11 months ago

        As a terrorist they could torture and kill him without covering anything up.

        https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-01/julian-assange-supporters-write-to-pm-over-reported-cia-plot/100504522

    • @lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml
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      No, they would have crucified him

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