
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be released from prison as part of a plea deal with the United States, it was revealed on Monday. The award-winning journalist – who has spent the past five years in London’s notorious, maximum-security Belmarsh Prison – will plead guilty to violating the Espionage Act, according to court documents, and will not spend any time in prison in the US. Assange – an Australian citizen, who has never lived in the United States – will appear in court on the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S....