The controversial case of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who reached a deal with the United States to get out of prison

The news quickly aroused enthusiasm among his supporters and antibodies among his detractors. .

This Monday, June 24, it was confirmed that Julien Assange reached an agreement with UNITED STATES get out of prison after being detained for 5 years in the United Kingdom.

The measure envisages that the 52-year-old Australian pleads guilty to espionage in Northern Mariana Islands court .

This should take place this Wednesday 26 and who then returns to his native country .

For Assange and his close entourage, it is a more than significant step in the legal plot that has kept him in suspense for 14 years .

This, following the leaks of WikiLeaks an online site he founded in 2006 and which is dedicated to the publication of confidential documents and recordings.

But it was four years later, in 2010, when the page became known worldwide .

On this occasion, they published images which showed how US soldiers fired on civilians from a helicopter in Baghdad, Iraq .

This triggered a controversy in the United States and the rest of the world .

Since he started appearing in the media, He remains rather reluctant to reveal details of his private life. .

However, We know that he was born in 1971 in Townsville a city located in the state of Queensland, Australia.

According to what was saved BBC , His childhood was marked by the absence of a place to put down roots, as his parents ran a theater company that moved permanently.

At 18, he became a father. a factor that caused disputes over custody of his son.

Over time, Assange devoted himself to developing his exceptional computer skills .

Actually, In 1995, he was accused of committing computer hacking with a friend, charges to which he pleaded guilty. and that meant a fine.

Despite the seriousness of the eventswas not left behind bars because he promised not to do it again .

Between 2003 and 2006 studied physics and mathematics .

Last year was precisely when founded WikiLeaks, with a group of like-minded people .

Assange himself said in an interview with the aforementioned media in 2011: “To keep our sources safe, we had to distribute assets, encrypt everything and move telecommunications and people across the world, to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions. » .

“We got good at it and never lost a deal or a source, but We cannot expect everyone to make the extraordinary efforts that we are making. ” he said about it.

Due to leaks of classified documents and legal conflicts with countries like the United States, Assange had to move to different temporary locations from where he continued to run WikiLeaks.

In 2010, the year they published images of the actions of the American army in Iraq, shared more than 90,000 secret documents containing US reports on the war in Afghanistan .

Other leaks were added later, such as five million confidential emails from private intelligence firm Stratfor also from the North American country.

As WikiLeaks continues to make headlines around the world, different American financial institutions started blocking donations on the page in order to make it difficult to pursue them.

One of Assange’s most controversial moments happened in August 2010, when Swedish prosecutors began pursuing him on sexual assault charges .

A few months later, in November of the same year, a Stockholm court issued an international arrest warrant against him .

Faced with the accusations against him, the Australian argued that the meetings were consensual and that the accusations were part of a smear campaign .

At that time, Assange He was in the United Kingdom and so turned to the then Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, to grant him asylum in his embassy in London. and thus avoid being extradited.

He applied in mid-2012 and it was approved by the president .

He spent almost 7 years in the diplomatic base of the South American country until April 11, 2019, he was taken out of the building and arrested by British police.

Until then, The new Ecuadorian president was Lenín Moreno who assured that “a sovereign decision” had been taken.

As explained in a video, During Assange’s stay, there were “repeated violations of international conventions and protocols of daily life.” .

However, on this occasion he stated that His country has asked the United Kingdom that the founder of WikiLeaks not be extradited to a country where he could be tortured or sentenced to death. .

After being detained there for 5 years, during which time he continued to resist extradition to the United States, In June 2024, he managed to reach an agreement with Washington to leave prison and plead guilty to espionage before a court in the Northern Mariana Islands. .