Julian Assange was freed from a London prison on Monday after more than five years and will not be extradited to the United States after agreeing to a plea deal with authorities.

The WikiLeaks founder agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to obtain and disclose U.S. national defense information, Reuters reported on June 24 citing U.S. prosecutors filings in the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.

In return, he is likely to be sentenced to 5 years, 3 months time served — which he’s spent in London’s Belmarsh Prison since being jailed there in April 2019.

His sentencing hearing is set for 11 pm UTC, Tuesday June 25 — Wednesday, 9 am local time on the island of Saipan.

WikiLeaks wrote in a June 24 X post that Assange boarded a flight on Monday leaving the U.K to return to his native Australia.

Julian Assange boards flight at London Stansted Airport at 5PM (BST) Monday June 24th. This is for everyone who worked for his freedom: thank you. #FreedJulianAssange pic.twitter.com/Pqp5pBAhSQ

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 25, 2024

In 2010, WikiLeaks published over 700,000 classified U.S. documents and diplomatic cables on its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq leaked by former military intel analyst Chelsea Manning .

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Donald Trump’s administration first charged Assange in April 2019 where he had been holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London for seven years after fleeing there to avoid extradition to Sweden on sexual assault allegations, which were later dropped.

British authorites dragged him out of there the same month and threw him in Belmarsh, where he’s fought his U.S. extradition.

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