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‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds like they got what they needed from him

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What do you mean?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They wanted to make an example of someone. His thumbing his nose at the US government was well publicised, so they made their revenge on him very public too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

He pleaded guilty and agreed to delete "secret documents", whatever the hell that would be, as part of the deal