WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves a Saipan court a free man, after accepting a plea deal with the U.S.
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00:00WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has left Saipan's court as a free man.
00:05Assange signed a plea bargain with the United States, ending a 14-year legal battle.
00:11He pleaded guilty to one charge of espionage,
00:14instead of the 18 he originally faced for leaking secret military information.
00:18His final court hearing was in the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands.
00:23He's now due to fly home to Australia.
00:26Assange's lawyers spoke outside the courthouse condemning the U.S. for charging Assange.
00:31Mr. Assange revealed truthful, important, and newsworthy information,
00:37including revealing that the United States had committed war crimes.
00:41And he has suffered tremendously in his fight for free speech, for freedom of the press,
00:49and to ensure that the American public and the world community
00:53gets truthful and important, newsworthy information.