{"id":13345,"date":"2024-06-26T18:47:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T18:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13345"},"modified":"2024-06-27T18:50:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T18:50:51","slug":"assange-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/06\/26\/assange-down-under\/","title":{"rendered":"Assange Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/julian-assange-wikileaks-australia-7daeb8f54c0604fb0e78c0b171046013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Associated Press<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns to Australia a free man after US legal battle ends<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0\u00a0RICK RYCROFT\u00a0AND\u00a0ROD MCGUIRK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives in Australia\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RI1oeH8qxl0?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CANBERRA, Australia (AP) \u2014 WikiLeaks founder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/julian-assange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Julian Assange<\/a>\u00a0returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet and raised a celebratory clenched fist as his supporters cheered on Wednesday, hours after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/assange-plea-deal-wikileaks-justice-department-d329ba4614dbfa77b5eb968d07fd9bd0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pleading guilty<\/a>\u00a0to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that concludes a drawn-out legal saga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assange told Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in a phone call from the capital Canberra\u2019s airport tarmac that Australian government intervention in the U.S. prosecution had saved his life, Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assange embraced his wife Stella Assange and father John Shipton who were waiting on the tarmac, but avoided media at a news conference less than than two hours after he landed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/julian-assange-wikileaks-australia-7daeb8f54c0604fb0e78c0b171046013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at AP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Associated Press WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns to Australia a free man after US legal battle ends BY\u00a0\u00a0RICK RYCROFT\u00a0AND\u00a0ROD MCGUIRK CANBERRA, Australia (AP) \u2014 WikiLeaks founder\u00a0Julian Assange\u00a0returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet and raised a celebratory clenched fist as his supporters cheered on Wednesday, hours after\u00a0pleading guilty\u00a0to obtaining and publishing U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}