{"id":3001,"date":"2024-06-25T16:32:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T16:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/restore\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2024-06-25T16:32:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T16:32:27","slug":"wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-regains-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-regains-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Regains Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange has been released from a UK prison after reaching an agreement to a plea deal with the US government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assange, 52, who had been seeking asylum for several years at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, was arrested in 2019 at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was accused of embarrassing the US government by releasing classified documents and thereby violating the US Espionage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A statement from WikiLeaks said Assange was granted bail by the High Court in London and left Belmarsh maximum security prison on Monday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The statement attributed his release to a global campaign that included grassroots organizers, press freedom advocates, legislators, and leaders from across the political spectrum, as well as the United Nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The plea deal, which is still subject to approval by a federal judge, would see Assange serve a 62-month sentence, equivalent to the time he has already served in the UK.\u00a0 This would enable him to immediately return to Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of the deal, Assange would still be required to appear in court in a remote US territory in the Pacific.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: Gatekeepers News<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange has been released from a UK prison after reaching an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":3002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}