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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They wanted to make an example of someone. His thumbing his nose at the US government was well publicised, so they made their revenge on him very public too.

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