Julian Assange Released from UK High-Security Prison

The founder of the international non-profit organization WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been released from a high-security British prison, a development likened to a desperate attempt by U.S. President Joe Biden to gain the support of freedom-loving voters ahead of the elections. This was stated by former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on the social media platform X on June 24.

“It’s wonderful that Julian Assange will finally be released, but it’s shameful that he had to spend years in a foreign prison for something that other journalists do regularly. Julian Assange deserves a pardon, and it was long overdue to restore a unified standard of law in America,” he wrote.

In response to Ramaswamy’s statement, U.S. Congressional Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene noted that presidential candidate Donald Trump would have released Assange regardless. “Everyone knows that Donald Trump was planning to release Julian Assange,” the Congresswoman declared.

Julian Assange left the British high-security Belmarsh prison on the morning of June 24. The High Court in London released him on bail, after which Assange boarded a plane at Stansted Airport and departed from the UK.

On the same day, the U.S. announced that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange intends to accept some of the charges presented against him as part of a deal with the U.S. prosecution, in exchange for which the prosecution will not seek his extradition.

Earlier, on March 20, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing its sources, that the U.S. Department of Justice is exploring the possibility of ending Assange's legal proceedings by allowing him to accept a guilty plea in a mitigated manner. According to journalists, this opens up a deal opportunity that could lead to the journalist's release from British prison.

The journalist had been in custody in the UK, facing 18 charges from the U.S., including espionage and violations of the law on the disclosure of secret information. He faces a possible 175-year prison sentence.