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What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, June 25th, and today we are talking about WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, finally being released from prison.

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You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit.ly slash breakdown pod. Well, friends, a wild one today. After five long years of

imprisonment, Julian Assange has been released on bail and is less than a day away from

total freedom. The WikiLeaks founder agreed to a plea deal with U.S. authorities on Monday.

The deal would see Assange plead guilty to one felony charge of conspiracy to receive and disclose classified U.S. National

Defense documents in breach of the Espionage Act. The Justice Department will be seeking a 62-month

sentence, the amount of time Assange has already served in Belmarsh Prison in London. This means

that once the deal is approved in court, Assange will be free to return home to Australia

having served his time. The case has been scheduled to be heard on Wednesday morning in the federal

district court for the northern Mariana Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Asange

boarded a plane to leave the UK on Monday afternoon, accompanied by a top-ranking Australian diplomat.

WikiLeaks published a statement on Twitter, which read, Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh Maximum Security Prison on the morning of June 24th,

having spent 1901 days there. This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grassroots

organizers, press freedom campaigners, legislators, and leaders from across the political

spectrum, all the way to the United Nations. This created the space for a long period of

negotiations with the U.S. Department of Justice, leading to a deal that has not yet been formally finalized. After more than five

years in a two-by-three-meter cell, isolated for 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his

wife Stella Assange and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars.

WikiLeaks published groundbreaking stories of government corruption and human rights abuses, holding the powerful accountable for their actions. As editor-in-chief, Julian paid severely for

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