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On Tuesday I was occupied with watching Julian Assange’s flight from the United Kingdom to a U.S. territory to his home in Australia, into the arms of his wife, Stella, who fought so hard for so long for that moment.

Assange faded from the media when he went to prison — not entertaining enough — but his wife and WikiLeaks and advocates around the world kept his cause alive on Twitter, now X. That’s when I started following his story. As a reminder, Assange is an editor, publisher and activist who won multiple awards for publishing and journalism, along with being nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize.



In 2006, he founded WikiLeaks. He came to international attention in 2010 after WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from U.S.

Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, who later became Chelsea Manning. The leaks consisted of footage of a U.S.

airstrike in Baghdad, U.S. military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and U.

S. diplomatic cables: U.S.

war crimes, human rights abuses and wrongdoing around the world. Briefly, his legal problems began in 2010, when Sweden wanted to arrest him for allegations of sexual assault — charges that were later dropped — and he sought asylum in the Ecuadoran embassy in London. When his asylum was terminated in April 2019, Assange was incarcerated in a high-security London prison.

In May 2019 and June 2020, the U.S. government charged Assange with violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and alleged he had conspired with .

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