Julian Assange is finally free. After years of incarceration in truly horrendous conditions,

Julius Assange of course faced being extradited to the US and facing a lifetime of solitary confinement, the most extreme conditions imaginable for any individual

to face and that's due to his work exposing the crimes committed by the US state's terrible war crimes.

I'm really delighted to be joined by Kristen who is the editor-in-chief of

WikiLeaks since 2018.

Hey, Kustin, how you doing?

Hi, thanks for having me on.

Firstly, just explain, how did he get freed?

Oh, it's a long process that's been brewing, mostly off-ra radar for a very, very long time and it's it sort of

of sped up the this process after the extraordinary victory in the London Court last

on May 20th, when the High Court actually issued

Juliana leave to appeal his extradition.

And then, of course, the issue in the focus was about press freedom and whether Julian could actually rely on First Amendment protection in his defense the United States.

So that's what the judges wanted to know.

They did not get sufficient answers.

So he was on that basis allowed to leave to appeal.

But at this point, the onus was on the other side it was a huge

turn around, a title turn on its Julian's case and in my opinion there's no doubt that that

was one of the things that pushed the thing in the right direction,

the communication between the negotiating party got quicker, and we are here one month later with Julian

en route to freedom. For a little refresher for that because it's gone on for so long yeah just

speak through the crimes the sorts of crimes that were exposed by WikiLeaks of why

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