٠٠:٠٤:٠٥Stella Assange, human rights activist and wife of a WikiLeaks founder, speaking with journalists in Canberra on Wednesday, called 'a priority' her husband's recovery 'after being in a high security prison for over five years'.
"Julian will always defend human rights, will always defend victims. He’s always done that and that’s just part of who he is. He’s deeply principled and he remains deeply principled and unafraid, " she said.
Lawyer Barry Pollock claimed that earlier the United States government 'admitted that there is not a single person anywhere that they can produce that was actually harmed by these publications'.
"Hopefully this is the end not just of the case against Julian Assange but the end of the case against journalism," he concluded.
In her turn, human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson praised 'everyone who has joined us in this fight' emphasising the importance for the international journalists to 'understand the dangerous precedent that this prosecution has set'.
Earlier, at the US district courthouse in the Northern Mariana Islands, Assange entered a 'guilty' plea to a single charge of espionage. While the offence carried up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, Judge Ramona Manglona accepted the plea agreement and imposed a sentence of time served, amounting to the 62 months he spent in the UK's Belmarsh prison.
The WikiLeaks founder left Belmarsh on Monday evening after reaching the plea deal, boarding a plane at London's Stansted Airport.
The hearing's location in Saipan - the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth - was reportedly due to its proximity to Australia and his own opposition to travelling to the United States.
He had been detained in the London prison since 2019, and fought a long-running extradition battle with the US over 18 charges related to the release of classified documents involving the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
He was initially granted political asylum by Ecuador in the British capital in 2012 but was dragged from the embassy by UK police seven years later.
'Julian will always defend human rights' - Stella Assange comments on WikiLeaks founder's release
Stella Assange, human rights activist and wife of a WikiLeaks founder, speaking with journalists in Canberra on Wednesday, called 'a priority' her husband's recovery 'after being in a high security prison for over five years'.
"Julian will always defend human rights, will always defend victims. He’s always done that and that’s just part of who he is. He’s deeply principled and he remains deeply principled and unafraid, " she said.
Lawyer Barry Pollock claimed that earlier the United States government 'admitted that there is not a single person anywhere that they can produce that was actually harmed by these publications'.
"Hopefully this is the end not just of the case against Julian Assange but the end of the case against journalism," he concluded.
In her turn, human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson praised 'everyone who has joined us in this fight' emphasising the importance for the international journalists to 'understand the dangerous precedent that this prosecution has set'.
Earlier, at the US district courthouse in the Northern Mariana Islands, Assange entered a 'guilty' plea to a single charge of espionage. While the offence carried up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, Judge Ramona Manglona accepted the plea agreement and imposed a sentence of time served, amounting to the 62 months he spent in the UK's Belmarsh prison.
The WikiLeaks founder left Belmarsh on Monday evening after reaching the plea deal, boarding a plane at London's Stansted Airport.
The hearing's location in Saipan - the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth - was reportedly due to its proximity to Australia and his own opposition to travelling to the United States.
He had been detained in the London prison since 2019, and fought a long-running extradition battle with the US over 18 charges related to the release of classified documents involving the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
He was initially granted political asylum by Ecuador in the British capital in 2012 but was dragged from the embassy by UK police seven years later.
Stella Assange, human rights activist and wife of a WikiLeaks founder, speaking with journalists in Canberra on Wednesday, called 'a priority' her husband's recovery 'after being in a high security prison for over five years'.
"Julian will always defend human rights, will always defend victims. He’s always done that and that’s just part of who he is. He’s deeply principled and he remains deeply principled and unafraid, " she said.
Lawyer Barry Pollock claimed that earlier the United States government 'admitted that there is not a single person anywhere that they can produce that was actually harmed by these publications'.
"Hopefully this is the end not just of the case against Julian Assange but the end of the case against journalism," he concluded.
In her turn, human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson praised 'everyone who has joined us in this fight' emphasising the importance for the international journalists to 'understand the dangerous precedent that this prosecution has set'.
Earlier, at the US district courthouse in the Northern Mariana Islands, Assange entered a 'guilty' plea to a single charge of espionage. While the offence carried up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, Judge Ramona Manglona accepted the plea agreement and imposed a sentence of time served, amounting to the 62 months he spent in the UK's Belmarsh prison.
The WikiLeaks founder left Belmarsh on Monday evening after reaching the plea deal, boarding a plane at London's Stansted Airport.
The hearing's location in Saipan - the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth - was reportedly due to its proximity to Australia and his own opposition to travelling to the United States.
He had been detained in the London prison since 2019, and fought a long-running extradition battle with the US over 18 charges related to the release of classified documents involving the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
He was initially granted political asylum by Ecuador in the British capital in 2012 but was dragged from the embassy by UK police seven years later.