WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be reunited with his wife and family after touching down on home soil a free man for the first time in more than a decade. Assange, 52, landed at RAAF Base Fairbairn in Canberra just before 7.40pm on Wednesday after flying in on a chartered jet from Saipan, a tiny US territory more than 5000km from Australia, where he had faced court earlier in the day. Waiting for him was his father John Shipton and wife Stella Assange.
After five years in prison, seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and two years of house arrest, Assange finally concluded a marathon legal saga that spanned continents on Wednesday by pleading guilty to violating US espionage law. The agreement with the US Justice Department required Assange to admit guilt to a single felony count but permitted him to return to his home country of Australia without any time in an American prison.
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