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BREAKING: Julian Assange FREED!

Julian signed a plea deal and was released Monday from Belmarsh Prison, boarding a plane to Australia, per WikiLeaks.



The court documents of Julian Assange’s plea deal, allowing him to go free


The first place I saw news of Julian Assange being freed was from Going Underground’s Afshin Rattansi, who tweeted a video about it at 7:10pm ET


Here’s the headline from

honoree Consortium News: “JULIAN ASSANGE IS FINALLY FREE” - Joe Lauria
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/06/24/julian-assange-is-free/


held an Action4Assange vigil (hopefully the final one ever) tonight to celebrate, which we co-streamed to on Rumble:


I have to give major props to this guy: Richard Medhurst

, whom has been covering Julian’s case since 2020 and is one of the people who personally inspired me to get involved and active to fight for Julian’s freedom and to fight for our ability to report war crimes.


The last time we went through the Assange case in detail was back in March, reading

’s comprehensive recap on How Did We Miss That:


Remember when:

organized the largest Assange gathering of speakers to protest in the US - October 8, 2022. This was the month after the speeches on INN News.


One of the people who has been fighting for Julian’s freedom for more than a decade is

- and I had the pleasure of chatting with him about Julian’s story last year:

Thank you to everyone who has shared, supported, protested, podcasted and got loud about Julian. He can finally hug his kids. He can finally be free.

Lots of questions to be asked, but today, we celebrate.


Update: June 25, 2024 - Julian arrived in Saipan and went before a judge, entered his guilty plea and walked out a free man.



Caitlin Johnstone: Assange Free, But No Justice via Consortium News

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/06/25/caitlin-johnstone-assange-free-but-no-justice/



Update: June 26, 2024 - Julian landed at Canberra airport and was able to embrace his wife and father. (video via Free Assange News)


Julian Assange Day sounds great.



What’s next?


To read all of our Julian Assange related posts, including videos, click here: https://www.indiemediatoday.com/t/julian-assange (only goes back to May 2023, when Substack introduced Tags)

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