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US Allows Assange to Walk Free to Avoid Tension With Voters Ahead of Election - Tory Peer
US Allows Assange to Walk Free to Avoid Tension With Voters Ahead of Election - Tory Peer
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The US administration has struck a plea deal with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to avoid tension with the "more radical voters" ahead of the November presidential election, Lord Richard Balfe, a Conservative member of the UK parliament's House of Lords, told Sputnik.
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On Wednesday, a US court in the Northern Mariana Islands sentenced Assange to time served as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors that ended his 14-year legal battle. The WikiLeaks founder then left for Canberra. The United States previously charged Assange with 18 criminal charges under which, if he was convicted, he could have faced up to 175 years in prison. The US presidential election is slated for November 2024. The main contenders expected on the ballot are Biden and former US President Donald Trump, who have both won enough delegates' votes to be their respective Democratic and Republican parties' presumptive nominees.
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US Allows Assange to Walk Free to Avoid Tension With Voters Ahead of Election - Tory Peer
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The US administration has struck a plea deal with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to avoid tension with the "more radical voters" ahead of the November presidential election, Lord Richard Balfe, a Conservative member of the UK parliament's House of Lords, told Sputnik.
On Wednesday, a US court in the Northern Mariana Islands sentenced Assange to time served as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors that ended his
14-year legal battle. The WikiLeaks founder then left for Canberra.
"The process was in a complete stalemate but in the USA there has been a growing questioning about why President [Joe] Biden has achieved no movement on this dossier. With an election on the horizon, the President did not want yet another issue that annoyed some of his more radical voters, so he was more prepared to accept a compromise. The Australian Government has also been doing a lot of quiet lobbying for his release," Balfe said, adding that Assange's release was an unprecedented "one off situation."
Assange, an Australian citizen, left London’s high-security Belmarsh prison on Monday, after spending more than five years there 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.
The United States previously
charged Assange with
18 criminal charges under which, if he was convicted, he could have faced
up to 175 years in prison.
The US presidential election is slated for
November 2024. The main contenders expected on the ballot are Biden and former US President
Donald Trump, who have both won enough delegates' votes to be their respective Democratic and Republican parties' presumptive nominees.
