The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has walked free from a court in the US Pacific island territory of Saipan after pleading guilty to violating US espionage law, in a deal that left him free to return home to Australia and brought an end to an extraordinary 14-year legal saga.
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Stella Assange, addressing reporters after her husband’s arrival in Canberra, said: ‘It took millions of people, people working behind the scenes, people protesting on the streets for days and weeks and months and years … and we achieved it’
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