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. Australia’s ambassador to the US, Kevin Rudd, and High Commissioner to the UK, Stephen Smith, were present in the courtroom.