Julian Assange LIVE | WikiLeaks Founder Pleads Guilty In Espionage Case, Released | News | N18G

Julian Assange LIVE | WikiLeaks Founder Pleads Guilty In Espionage Case, Released | News | N18G Julian Assange walks free after pleading guilty to US espionage charge in Saipan court. To his supporters, Julian Assange is a valiant campaigner for truth. To his critics, he is a publicity seeker who has endangered lives by putting a mass of sensitive information into the public domain. The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has walked free from a court in the US Pacific island territory of Saipan, after pleading guilty to violating US espionage law, in a deal that left him free to return home to Australia and brought an end to an extraordinary 14-year legal saga. On Wednesday, the US’s smallest and most remote federal district court accepted a plea deal reached between Assange and the US government, under terms which required him to admit guilt to one criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents. In return he was sentenced to time s