Stella Assange says she has not yet told the couple’s two young sons about their father’s release from prison
founder has been released from Belmarsh prison in London and will soon be a “free man” under a deal in which he will plead guilty to violating US espionage law.
There, he is due to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents, according to filings in the island’s district court. “And they still don’t know. We’ve been very careful, because obviously, no one can stop a five- and a seven-year-old from, you know, shouting it from the rooftops at any given moment. Because of the sensitivity around the judge having to sign off the deal, we’ve been very careful, just gradually, incrementally telling them information.”
Assange was further arrested at that time, however, at the request of the US seeking his extradition over allegations he conspired with the former US military analyst Chelsea Manning to download classified databases in what the US justice department called “one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States”.She said: “All their interactions with Julian have been in a single visitors’ room inside Belmarsh prison.
In a letter to a federal judge in the district court for the Northern Mariana Islands, a senior justice department official said Assange was being sent to Saipan because of its “proximity to the defendant’s country of citizenship”.
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