Stella Assange will seek a pardon for Wikileaks founder

STORY: :: Stella Assange says she will seek a pardon for her husband, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

:: Stella Assange, Julian Assange's wife

"Of course I mean I think that the correct course of action from the U.S. government should have been to drop the case entirely, we will be seeking a pardon obviously but the fact that there is a guilty plea under the Espionage Act in relation to obtaining and disclosing National Defence information is obviously a very serious concern for journalists and national security journalists in general."

:: June 25, 2024

:: "When we met he was under house arrest, it will be the first time that I get to see him as a fully free man, and I was just, when I was speaking to him I said well you know we can walk, go for a walk and there will be no restrictions, no curfews, no, you know... all this is is so alien to the way it's been until now for the past 14 years."

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to plead guilty on Wednesday in a deal that will set him free after a 14-year British legal odyssey and allow his return home to Australia.

Assange, 52, has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defense documents, according to filings in the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.