These are the controversial secrets Julian Assange revealed on WikiLeaks

A media where, without any censorship, journalists could publish important information and documents. It’s like that WikiLeaks the page that put you behind bars Julien Assange -its founder-after UNITED STATES will accuse him of espionage and having disclosed classified documents.

In 2012, the man, originally from Australia, He took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for seven years. However, his asylum was revoked and He was arrested by British authorities in 2019. Lenin Moreno, then president of Ecuador, said protecting Assange was a headache and that he was a “miserable, spoiled hacker.”

Thus, Assange was locked up in the high security Belmarsh prison where, on several occasions, An attempt was made to extradite him to the United States, where he would face a sentence of more than 175 years in prison. but his lawyers appealed until the last moment.

But now, the legal saga seems to have seen its end: Julian Assange – after spending 1,901 days in a cramped cell – has reached an agreement with US authorities and will be released. He must plead guilty to the criminal charges and will be able to return to Australia, his country of origin, at the age of 52.

These are the secrets that Assange revealed that put him behind bars.

Conspiracy to obtain and disclose U.S. national defense information. It was the accusation against Julian Assange that kept him isolated and detained for so many years. And the man would have gone up towards WikiLeaks more than 10 million documents revealing information about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, among other conflicts.

The US defense stated that The publication of this information would have exposed certain people “to a risk of serious harm, torture, or even death”.

However, Assange has always defended himself and He assured that these documents were proof of disturbing abuses committed by the American armed forces. and that his persecution was politically motivated.

One of the most controversial leaks WikiLeaks he was the attack of a helicopter against civilians.

It was a video recorded from a US military ship, showing the killing of 18 civilians in Baghdad, Iraq.

As established by the BBC , A voice in the recording told the pilots to “burn everyone.” Then the helicopter fired at people in the street. A van that was trying to help them approached the victims and the soldiers also shot at them.

In this attack, the news agency photographer was killed Reuters Namir Noor-Eldeen and his assistant Saeed Chmag.

Another controversial secret was the thousands of documents related to the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, where the US military allegedly killed hundreds of civilians in “unreported incidents”.

They also published messages sent by American diplomats in which it was revealed that The United States wanted to obtain “biographical and biometric” information on key government officials. United Nations (UN) . This data included scanning of their irises, DNA samples and fingerprints.

And a total of 573,000 messages intercepted and sent during the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. Among them, the messages that the families of the victims sent to their loved ones and their reaction to the attacks.

Finally, in 2015, another impact of leaks of WikiLeaks was the hacking of Sony Pictures, the film studio, where it was revealed that the actresses were paid significantly less than their male co-stars.

They also showed messages from producers and executives insulting Angelina Jolie and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Assange said at the time that the leak was of public interest because it showed how a multinational and “respected” entertainment industry company operated internally.