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

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Sounds like they got what they needed from him

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

What do you mean?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

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