Julian Assange spoke for the first time since his release from prison in an address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in France.
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00:00I eventually chose freedom over unrealizable justice after being detained for years and
00:06facing a 175-year sentence with no effective remedy. Justice, for me, is now precluded
00:16as the US government insisted in writing into its plea agreement that I cannot file a case at
00:24the European Court of Human Rights or even a Freedom of Information Act request over what
00:29it did to me as a result of its expedition request. I am not free today because the system
00:35worked. I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.