The End of Assange’s Saga

The world’s best-known embassy shelterer is about to walk free.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been wanted since 2010 for releasing ~500K documents about the U.S. campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Assange argued he exposed serious abuses by U.S. armed forces and claimed the case against him was politically motivated. The government says the leaks were illegal and endangered the lives of American personnel.

The 52-year-old hacker spent seven years evading arrest in London’s Ecuadorian Embassy before his asylum was revoked in 2019 and Assange was moved to a high-security London prison. 

After 13 years of legal back and forth, Uncle Sam and Assange came to a deal: Assange will plead guilty to conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defense information, and prosecutors will consider previous jail time sufficient to cover his sentence.

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CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE
Whether plaintiffs are world-famous or live in obscurity, Christians must always root for justice and fairness. May we continually call our neighbors to side with the final victor and ultimate judge, Christ our king. 

“God now commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has set a day when he is going to judge the world in righteousness by the man he has appointed. He has provided proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
Acts 17:30-31 (CSB) (read full passage)