Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands –
A U.S. judge freed Julian Assange on Wednesday in a plea deal that ended years of legal drama for the WikiLeaks founder, long wanted by Washington for revealing military secrets.
“With this pronouncement, it appears that you will be able to walk out of this courtroom a free man,” said the judge in a court in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. Pacific territory.
Assange had pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to obtain and disseminate national defense information, reporters inside the court said.
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