Absolutely disgusting how radlibs turned on him as soon as the media blamed Wikileaks for “aiding Russia”

The democratic west out there engaging in one of the longest and most dramatic repressions of a journalist in history.

The dude needs to flee to Russia asap and never leave.

It sounds like the people around him are confident it’s a done deal, with his time in Belmarsh acting as ‘time served’ for a more minor breach of thae espionage act.

But I’d still be worried the US pulls some shit as:

Assange is scheduled to appear in a federal court in the Northern Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth in the western Pacific, where he is expected to plead guilty to one charge under the Espionage Act of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defence information. The extradition request is expected to be dropped and Assange won’t face any other charges.

The hearing is taking place in the Northern Mariana Islands because of Assange’s opposition to travelling to the US mainland and the court’s proximity to Australia.

Prosecutors have agreed to a sentence of five years, but have said the time already served in a British prison will count towards this. This means that he will probably walk free after the sentencing.

The guilty plea must still be approved by a judge, but if it is, he is expected to return to Australia after the sentencing.

What if the judge says ‘no’ and gives him a much harsher sentence to be detained by the US?

What if they just straight up black bag him?

On a tiny Island with only one or two witnesses instead of a busy city with a (nominally) free and interested press.

I hope this is the end of the ordeal for him, I truly do, but I don’t think I’d ever believe it until I was safely in a country I was sure would never extradite or collaborate with the US. Although right now it’s clear he doesn’t have much of a choice.

if I were him you would not catch my ass in any country with a US extradition treaty

Incredible news.

I don’t think it can be understated just how much damage this man did to US credibility through wikileaks. I have no idea if he has the skillset he once had or the connections that enabled it but they incredible damage to the US and they hunted him relentlessly for it to set an example. And it worked flawlessly. Other outlets became considerably more on the side of the US in the aftermath of crackdowns on Assange and police raids of any news org that was publishing anything the US didn’t like, the UK Guardian being an obvious famous example of this when the authorities raided them for Snowden’s harddrives and forced them to take angle grinders to the drives while GCHQ operatives observed.

I wonder what “negotiations” took place. Is he allowed to go back to journalism if he wanted to?

Sentenced to transportation to Australia

Huh, was kinda never expecting to see the day.

Obviously a very good thing he’s free but it sucks he had to spend so long in such awful conditions, I imagine you’d never fully get over that sort of experience (real doomer hours from me tonight I guess).

Amazing. He needs to move to a decent country and then write a book about the horror he experienced once he gets some psychological counseling for the PTSD. This man’s a fucking hero.

I’m glad he’s free but goddamn I don’t think he’s going to be straight for awhile, dude is really going to need some time to heal. Solitary confinement is torture and it’s crazy how the prison system uses it with such ease.

Wow! I never though that I would see the day. Death to America, and all its vassals.

Australia is even more subservient to the US than the UK. He should not be going to Australia.

It’s hard to believe. But it’s easy to believe the lack of attention this news is getting

Fuck the US, seriously

If he comes back to australia and gets into politics, Im nervous hell unite a lot of the worst people and be some third way fascist, his fathers a chud whos been given a lot of attention about all of this, while also not hesitating to participate in panel discussions with fascists

the whole thing makes me sick to my stomach, there are so many people unjustly held in prison and this guys all a lot of people seem to care about