WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed from prison in the United Kingdom and is traveling home to Australia after he pleaded guilty to a single charge of breaching the espionage law in the United States.
Assange will plead guilty to one count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defense documents, according to a filing in the US District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.
He was freed from the UK’s high-security Belmarsh prison on Monday and taken to the airport where he flew out of the country.
Assange will appear at a court in Saipan, a US Pacific territory at 9 am on Wednesday (23:00 GMT on Tuesday) where he will be sentenced to 62 months already served.