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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns home to Australia a free man

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Mr Assange did not appear at a WikiLeaks press conference held in the Australian capital on June 26.

CANBERRA - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned home to Australia to start life as a free man on June 26, afterMr Assange landed on a chilly Canberra evening in a private jet, the final act of an international drama that led him from a five-year stretch in the high-security Belmarsh prison in Britain to a courtroom in a US Pacific island territory and, finally, home.

“You have to understand, he needs time, he needs to recuperate, and this is a process,” she told reporters, apparently close to tears. The remote courtroom was chosen because of the 52-year-old’s unwillingness to go to the continental US, and because of its proximity to Australia. Ms Robinson told reporters earlier it was a “historic day” that “brings to an end 14 years of legal battles”.

The US authorities had wanted to put Mr Assange on trial for divulging military secrets about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

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