WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to go free after agreeing to a plea deal with the United States.
Assange is expected to plead guilty to one count of conspiring to obtain and disclose national defence information, according to documents filed in the American courts.
The Washington Post reports that criminal information documents such as those filed in Assange’s case are often indicators that a defendant is set to plead guilty. He is set to face a US courtroom in the Northern Mariana Islands, just under 4,000km from Assange’s hometown of Townsville.
He is expected to be given a 62-month sentence, which will credit the time he has spent in Belmarsh Prison in the United Kingdom fighting extradition to the United States and see him walk free.
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