WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is finally free! According to reports from the BBC, Assange will appear in a US court on Wednesday and formally reach a plea agreement in court. After 14 years of legal battle and 1,901 days in prison, Assange can finally return to Australia to reunite with his family.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Julian Assange is an Australian journalist and activist who founded the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks attracted international attention in 2010 when it released a series of declassified incidents provided by U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning showing that a U.S. helicopter killed a Reuters reporter in Baghdad. It also released thousands of classified documents showing that U.S. military forces were Hundreds of civilians have been killed in unreported incidents during the war in Afghanistan, sparking scrutiny of U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts.

U.S. prosecutors had originally wanted to try the WikiLeaks founder on 18 counts, mostly under the Espionage Act, related to leaking classified U.S. military records and diplomatic information related to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Assange has spent the past five years in a British prison as part of a lengthy legal marathon, resisting U.S. attempts to extradite him. According to the BBC, Assange left a British prison on Tuesday and flew to the North Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory in the Pacific, where his plea deal is expected to take effect, before returning to his native Australia.

AssangeDAO governance token JUSTICE rises 310% in seven days

In February 2022, AssangeDAO, which raised funds to defend Assange, raised more than 17,000 ETH through Juicebox, of which Vitalik also participated in the donation. Donors can receive governance tokens (JUSTICE) in return. However, AssangeDAO’s use of funds has been controversial.

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AssangeDAO member Silke Noa posted that of the 16,593 ETH raised by AssangeDAO, more than 11,000 ETH ($37 million) has been used for legal defense and promotional activities. She also explained that the allocation of funds has not been fully transparent in the past for security reasons and they are urging the Wau Holland Foundation, which manages the fees, to provide a detailed accounting of the allocation of funds.

AssangeDAO’s token JUSTICE is up 310% in the past seven days, according to CoinGecko.

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