WikiLeaks founder Assange to be ‘free man’ after US plea deal

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be a “free man”, his wife said on Tuesday, once a judge signs off on a plea deal with US authorities to bring his years-long legal drama to a close.

Assange was released on Monday from a high-security British prison where he had been held for five years while he fought extradition to the United States, which sought to prosecute him for revealing military secrets.

He flew out of London to travel to the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory in…



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