Why is Julian Assange flying to the remote Pacific island of Saipan?
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Why is Julian Assange flying to the remote Pacific island of Saipan?

Hindustan Times  

By Lewis Jackson Why is Julian Assange flying to the remote Pacific island of Saipan? SYDNEY, - Julian Assange is en route to a courtroom on the Pacific island of Saipan where he is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday to a single criminal charge in a plea deal that will see him walk free and return home to Australia after a 14-year legal odyssey. U.S. prosecutors said Assange wanted to go to a court close to his home of Australia but not on the continental United States. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT U.S. prosecutors said Assange has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defense documents.

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