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‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (5 children)

How many years would his prison sentence have been if he was extradided the year he fled to the embassy? I feel like he would have been out by now. Wasn't he leaking early Iraq war corruption stuff? That was 20 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago

He didn't leak, he published.

That's what's so concerning about the case. The USA tried to persecute an Australian citizen working out of the EU for publishing information.

If precedent was set they could kidnap anyone from sovereign countries based on US law

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