WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been released from prison in Britain and is set to face a final court hearing after reaching a plea deal with US authorities that brings to a close his years-long legal drama.
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00:00I, Julian Assange, the prosecution of an award-winning journalist, must...
00:15Regardless of the views that people have about Mr Assange's activities, the case has
00:35dragged on for too long.
00:37There is nothing to be gained by his continued incarceration and we want him brought home
00:41to Australia.
00:55It's another case where maybe there are no winners or maybe at the end of the day, everybody
01:11is a winner because he's not prosecuted.
01:15The government can say that it got some concession out of him with a plea agreement and the general
01:21public learned all this information from more than a decade ago.