Assange says 'pleaded guilty to journalism' to gain freedom
The Peninsula
Strasbourg, France: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday he was released after years of incarceration only because he pleaded guilty to doing...
Strasbourg, France: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday he was released after years of incarceration only because he pleaded guilty to doing "journalism", warning that freedom of expression was now at a "dark crossroads".
"I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today after years of incarceration because I pleaded guilty to journalism," Assange told the Council of Europe rights body at its Strasbourg headquarters in his first public comments since his release.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) had issued a report expressing alarm at Assange's treatment, saying it had a "chilling effect on human rights".
He spent most of the last 14 years either holed up in the Ecuadoran embassy in London to avoid arrest, or locked up at Belmarsh Prison.
Assange was released under a plea bargain in June, after serving a sentence for publishing hundreds of thousands of confidential US government documents.
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