Assange allowed back to Australia after plea deal with US authorities | DW News 

A win for Assange is a win for humanity

This was not on my 2024 bingo card

Assange is not a "whistle blower". He is a journalist and a publisher and deserves the protections of a free press!

He is not suicidal.

Hope the Aussie folks can protect him from the Aussie gov.

"When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals." ~ Edward Snowden

As long as no one breaks their promises and he stays alive. A man isn't suicidal when freedom is at hand.

Luckily , he is not a Boeing whistleblower.

Congrats to all of us who fought this massive fight in freeing this good man. Welcome back home, our hero.

Expecting the whole world to believe heroes wear Red White and Blue is lame nowadays

Tell me, DW, how he 'endangered lives' by displaying criminal acts? This guy is a hero and we welcome him back home with open arms. Only a few criminals are critical of his heroic actions. What happened to him is yet another crime that won't be justified.

Exposing American war crimes is a crime😂😂😂

Good news, at last, for Julian Assange.

still remember the videos he published, and they were by no means a threat to the US national security. if hes guilty of, he is guilty of showing how barbaric the US army was in the middle east. the video of the helicopter and us soldier gunning down kids and a journalist in the air is still seared into my head

Definitely time served,goodnews.

Great news. Hopefully our government will free him. 🇦🇺 🙏 He’s more than paid his due

Great news, but too soon to celebrte. I wouldn't put it past the US Govt to manufacture some sort of "problem." When he is home, then it's time to pop a cork.

Free Assange

I recall commenting on an Assange video months ago that he should plead to a lesser charge and be released for time served I expect that was the best case scenario it certainly was not "justice" to detain him for years in maximum security convicted of no crime not even allowed access to all his paperwork and files to build a defense he and his family must be relieved though I'm sure he has been severely traumatized and America should be embarrassed about the war crimes because they are war crimes not just because Julian told people about them. It would be different if he hadn't investigated and lied but all he did was tell the truth.

Im Australian and if I was Julian Assange I would not come here.....The Govt will sell him out or worse

Glad this saga is over,but he’s no hero!

He should go to Russia, it's the only place where he'll be safe from extradition.

Whistleblowers give me hope in humanity

Let’s see how long they let him live before the off him.

Why would the Americans want him to land on an American Island, so he could fall out of a hotel window maybe?

Abc documentary deal 🥱🥱

🤝🫂God Bless you.❤️

Regardless of his plea, I think at this point, most people know he's not guilty of any crime. He's a whistleblower responsible for uncovering and exposing the United States government (who is charging him) and other countries of war crimes and multiple other crimes. He's an investigative journalist.

Congratz to Assange!

Under British Justice the law protects the rich and prosecutes the poor.

PARDON SNOWDEN!

Thank you

The point here is that Assange committed no crime unless he was either in America when he received and published the information (he was not) or was an American citizen (he was not). The USA cannot prosecute people who are neither American nor offending US law in the USA, or it would be able to prosecute anyone outside US territory for any actions perceived by the USA as offending. Just as Germany does not demand non-Germans acting in foreign countries in a manner that does not break the law in whichever foreign land the persons stand to be extradited to Bundes Republik Deutschland to face trial, same goes for UK, the USA should not have extraterritorial powers to force non-Americans to enter the USA to face a political trial and ludicrous punishment. The NYT faced no such threat and they did offend the same laws and were Americans acting inside American territory. If this were Iran, PRC or Russia we would all grimace and demand our respective governments protect us from foreign interference and they would largely grant us our protection as citizens of our countries. Sadly multiple governments and politicians in Australia have failed all Australians in failing to vigorously defend Assange just as multiple Presidents of the USA have failed to protect the reputation of being law abiding leaders of the free world. Let’s see if the Albanese federal government of Australia and President Biden can make this right and not only free Assange and rehabilitate his health and reputation but expunge his record with a full pardon.

Assange exposed and embarrassed Hillary Clinton after she denied having received a request from the State department staff in Benghazi. I pray Assange will live out his life in peace, but Hillary is a very vengeful individual.

That's what usa say really he has willing got on the plane to the USA.

sexual assault charges... that's just something they try to stick to you to discredit in public eye.

Jailed for exposing the western imperialism and r@c@sm. Justice for Julian Assange

It's too little too late. America credibility and respect have been long lost because of this very controversial case, that the people scorn.

he was released from the UK prison as he decided to go to the USA of his own free will

Don't count your chickens until he is off American soil (really, stolen native land).

If he pleads guilty then he can't Sue the government

MSM never reported on the injustice of Assange's incarceration and now they are all reporting breaking news of his release. I didn't realize they knew he his was imprisoned

Australia is the last developped country to have some moral values. if you want, watch Sky News Australia, susprisingly unbiased media - the opposite of the european Sky News

News dont get much attention why?

[3:10] When a clod like John Bolton who put touting the tat of a book over testimony to the Senate of the US, how seriously can anyone take death threats from John Bolton -)

[2:55] Had the Americans not been so involved in military actions over which they browbeat their allies into being complicit, lives and national security would not have been put in the compromise, of the line of fire. So . . . like it is in the Russia of today: Shoot the messenger. As for the British: They ought to have immediately deported Assange to Australia, and let the Australians deal with the Americans and the Swedes.

Good. Now he can finally focus on China.

He's reaching a deal with SUPERMAN They would get him eventually.....

Quoting John Bolbon about almost anything is like quoting anyone from Rump administration - an utter disgrace.

so happy for him !

I'm glad he is free now he has to answer to the people he screwed over. See you soon!

Am so happy

Do we expect that narcissist and anarchist will have learned his lesson and will keep a low profile now? Will he turn up for his court date? Not a chance...

Today’s news means a lot for people who are supporting Mr. Assange and his real journalism and freedom of the press around the world. The hero is going home.

Assange is a toxic individual who simply stoked his own self-importance by blindly releasing tens of thousands of classified documents regardless of the content or impact. It's remarkable to see how gullible the people are that believe his PR hype that he does journalism. But I can understand how that naive support reinforces Assange's self-image.

.Thank You Allah TAla , .may Allah save n protect him n his family ............ ..............................Amen

Amen!

As predicted

Yet Hillary Cliton is still free 😂

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Great News!

Needs to be dragged to US…

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Wait, is this...*good news*? What a lovely change

More power to Julian.

Less a national security problem than Trump, on every level.

🤘🤘🤘

Good news.

Congrats🎉

Freedom

Hopefully he won't be envolved in a plane wreck, car wreck, a robbery, a mall shooting, a drowning, a viral infection, a poisoning or a suicide, on the way home.

He should have gotten a dime in Federal prison minimum. Shameful, especially when we are having such problems with other propagandists. 😢

The Washington Crime Syndicate forces Julian Assange to confess to violating espionage laws to pretend that it did not violate freedom of speech and press in exchange to free him to return to Hostrilier:

Lucky man you have to ask why was the information available he was not the first to reveal the information when is enough enough.

What life did endanger?

The US industrial military complex had no legal right nor authority to persecute Julian like this. Its pathetic.

Jailed for telling the truth and bringing accountability to those that feel they are above it. What a shame.

The guy who wanted death penalty for him is the one who should be tried with death penalty.

I still have no understanding of why the US has any right to bring Assange to trial in the US. He isn’t an American and committed no act on US soil.

In short, he is a convicted felon.

This is a classic case of West😢

To Russia?🇷🇺✊🙏

Run to Russia 🇷🇺🎉

Putin's bag man.

What about the two Swedish girls ???

Because Australia threatened to leave AUKUS that's why he was released.

it's a dark day for National Security.

He needs to throw his deadmans switch, because they will not let him live. Even trump want's him gone.

This guy is no innocent victim, he's a hostile intelligence operator who is directly threatening US national security (and by extension, the security of every nation that enjoys protection from the USA). This "whistle blower" went on open-ended fishing expeditions to get a media scoop on classified military secrets. When he offered to give technical assistance to a leaker he crossed the line and broke the law, and if you do this you deserve to have the full prosecutorial wrath of the entire US government brought down on you. I'm sorry but when you directly target the US national security establishment with coercive attempts to exfiltrate information you cross the line of being a journalist. Journalists do not actively attempt to elicit information, there are standards of conduct for that.

As predicted