WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed from a U.K. prison after reaching a plea agreement with U.S. prosecutors. He has been in some form of confinement for 14 years.
Assange will plead guilty to one felony count of illegally obtaining classified information in a U.S. court in the Northern Mariana Islands, a distant U.S. territory in the Western Pacific, early Wednesday morning.
After the hearing, Assange will fly to Australia, his home country, where his wife, Stella, and their two young sons, who have never seen him outside of custody, will greet him.
A U.S. federal grand jury indicted Assange in 2019 for illegally obtaining and sharing classified information about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. He has been in British custody since then, fighting extradition to the United States.