WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange exits court as a ‘free man’.
The judge ruled that the 62 months Julian Assange has already served in a UK cell should be considered his sentence. On Wednesday, June 26, a US federal court in Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, ordered the immediate release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He had pleaded guilty to a single felony count of violating the Espionage Act. Judge Ramona Manglona declared that the 62 months Assange had already spent in a UK cell would be accepted as his sentence. Assange, who arrived in the Northern Mariana Islands earlier that day, will now return to Canberra, Australia. …