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Assange's Supporters Prevail, Will Be Rewarded for Support - Assange's Father

© AP Photo / Rick RycroftWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange waves after landing at RAAF air base Fairbairn in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, June 26 2024. Assange has returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that concludes a drawn-out legal saga.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange waves after landing at RAAF air base Fairbairn in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, June 26 2024. Assange has returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that concludes a drawn-out legal saga. - Sputnik International, 1920, 26.06.2024
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JAKARTA (Sputnik) - Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's release have prevailed and will be rewarded for their support, Assange's father, John Shipton, told Sputnik on Wednesday.
"We have prevailed together, us supporters [of Assange's release]. To the supporters goes the victors wreath and all the accolades of achievement. This I believe and swear," Shipton said.
Earlier in the day, a US judge sentenced Assange to time served and would not impose any period of supervised release after he pled guilty to one of the US espionage charges as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors. The plane with Assange on board had arrived in Canberra at 09:37 GMT, the information from the flight tracker Flightradar showed.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves the US Federal Courthouse in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, on June 26, 2024, after pleading guilty to a single count of conspiracy to obtain and disseminate national defence information - Sputnik International, 1920, 26.06.2024
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Assange, an Australian citizen, was transferred to London’s high-security Belmarsh prison in April 2019 on bail breach charges. In the US, he faced prosecution under the Espionage Act for obtaining and disclosing classified information that shed light on war crimes and human rights violations committed by US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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