he left belmarsh prison in london on monday. he is then driven to stansted airport before boarding a flight. the guilty plea is due to be confirmed on wednesday when mr assange will appear in front of a court in the northern mariana islands, a us territory in the pacific. he is then expected to return home to his native australia. julian assange spent seven years held up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london as washington tried to extradite him over the wikileaks files which disclosed confidential documents about the iraq and afghanistan wars in what turned out to be one of the biggest leaks of national security in american history. he was arrested in april 2019 over a breach of his bail conditions, and had spent the last five years inside a london prison, fighting his extradition to the united states. last month, a uk court ruled last month that he could appeal this decision after mr assange argued that he would not receive a fair trial. our north america correspondent,
files with disclose information about afghan and iraqi operations by the us, place lies it risks. we are judged by nomia iqbal. there was about the agreement. although he has been injail in the uk since 2019, the actual story ofjulian assange has been running for more than a decade, hazarded? his wikileaks website rose to prominence in 2010. you mentioned this bridge that the american it was the largest of its kind in us military history. wikileaks military history. wikilea ks released military history. wikileaks released more than 90,000 classified military documents on the afghanistan war and also released more than 400,000 secret documents on the iraq war and he has long been accused of putting american operatives lives at risk. as you mention, almost all the charges that he faced were under the espionage act and he won t spend any time in the us, once again, the plea, expected to be finalised later this week, because it is roughly equivalent to the amount of time that he
to disclose national defence information. for years, the us said the release of files around the iraq and afghanistan was endangered lives. wikileaks claims to have published more than 10 million documents in what the us government described as one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the united states. he and his lawyers have claimed that the case against him is politically motivated. i spoke to nomia iqbal. nomia, you have been following this. following this. tell us about the agreement. following this. tell us about the agreement. it following this. tell us about the agreement. it is - the agreement. it is interesting. although he has been injail in the uk since 2019, the actual story ofjulian assange has been running for more than a decade, hasn t it? his wikileaks website rose to prominence in 2010. you mentioned this breach that the americans said was the largest of its kind in us military history. wikileaks released more than 90,0