Kathmandu. Julian Assange, the founder of the ‘Wikileaks’ website, who became famous around the world by publishing secret documents of the US military about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, has finally been released from British prison after 1,911 days. He was released yesterday from Belmarsh Prison in London, UK. WikiLeaks released the secret documents of the US military, this incident was considered as the biggest security breach in US military history.
Who is Julian Assange? How did he get the secret documents of the US Army?
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, born on July 3, 1971 in Townsville, Australia, is an Australian publisher and journalist. Without formal education from any university, he became a skilled hacker at the age of 16. Stealing the information on any computer was the subject of his greatest interest. In 1995, he was fined for hacking when he worked as a computer programmer. While he was becoming a skilled hacker, the world was leaping onto the Internet.
He founded WikiLeaks in 2006 and on July 25, 2010, published 91,000 secret documents of the US military about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars on his website. Within three months of that, in October, 400,000 secret military files were released. Among them was a video of an attack by the US Army in 2007 by an Apache helicopter. 11 people including 2 Reuters journalists were killed in that attack. After this incident, the American government increased surveillance on him and arrested him.
Assange was convicted of giving and releasing the classified documents to Chelsea Manning, a former military intelligence analyst. The leak was considered the largest security breach in US military history. Assange has been facing legal challenges since 2010. For the first time, the Swedish court ordered his arrest on charges of sexual crimes. He was later released on bail.
After 2012, he took political asylum in the Embassy of Ecuador in the UK for 7 years. When he came out in 2019 after Ecuador refused to grant him political asylum, he was arrested and taken to the high-security Belmarsh prison in London, where he spent nearly five years. He also got married while in that prison.
He was released by the British court on June 24 after he agreed to plead guilty to stealing secret documents from the American military in the American court. The final hearing of his case will be held on Wednesday in the US Mariana Islands court. Based on the evidence, the court will convict him and sentence him to 62 months in prison. However, as he has already spent five years in a London prison, it is said that his 62-month prison sentence will be reduced. After that, he can freely return to his home in Australia.
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