Julian Assange is Free! – We All have the Power to Be Free

This is what Wikileaks published in the night 24/25 June 2024:

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stanstead airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK. This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grass-roots organisers, press freedom campaigners, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations. This created the space for a long period of negotiations with the US Department of Justice, leading to a deal that has not yet been formally finalised. We will provide more information as soon as possible. After more than five years in a 2×3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars. WikiLeaks published groundbreaking stories of government corruption and human rights abuses, holding the powerful accountable for their actions. As editor-in-chief, Julian paid severely for these principles,and for the people’s right to know. As he returns to Australia, we thank all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom. Julian’s freedom is our freedom. [More details to follow]

This demonstrates that we all have the Power to be Free – Julian and his perseverance have proven it.

Julian is on a plane, in the company of the Australian Ambassador to England, to the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Western Pacific, where he will stand trial for an Act of Espionage, and a charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defense information.

This is what AP has to say:

A plane believed to be carrying WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrived in Bangkok on Tuesday. Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will allow him to walk free and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified documents. Assange left a British prison on Monday and will appear later this week in the U.S. federal court in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Western Pacific. He’s expected to plead guilty to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defense information, the Justice Department said in a letter filed in court. See full report https://apnews.com/article/assange-justice-department-plea-wikileaks-saipan-australia-00eb380879ff636cc9b916f82f82ed40 .

It is assumed that this is a symbolic trial, where Julian will be found guilty and condemned to several years in prison, but given the time he has already spent in prison, he will be free – FREE to return to his homeland Australia.

Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, and his Foreign Minister, the Honorary Penny Wong, have apparently been working for the last two years diplomatically and discretely with the United States, all the why with the President Biden’s Office to finally reach this agreement.

We collectively – the World for Freedom – congratulate Julian for his long-overdue Freedom, and for a peaceful and happy future with his wife and family – in Australia, or wherever he chooses to live.

This Excellent News is a needed break in the everyday dark news of wars, conflicts and attempts for oppression and repression, mostly inflicted by the West. It does, however not distract from our alertness and fight for Peace and Harmony around the world. To the contrary, this good news encourages and enhances our movement for Freedom and Peace.

More news will be published as it emerges.

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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and  co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020)
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.