This may be the end of a 14-year legal saga for Julian Assange. He reached an agreement with the American justice system: he agrees to plead guilty and can regain his freedom, after 5 years of pre-trial detention in the United Kingdom. The mobilization in its favor was organized, among other places, in Geneva.
“Julian is free!”: this is his wife’s cry of victory. She shared this video on
This is excellent news for Guy Mettan: he invited Julian Assange to Geneva in 2010. Earlier the same year, WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of confidential files on American military and diplomatic activities.
He remembers this meeting very well: “It was a very important event because he had already gone into semi-clandestinity at the time, and so it had already been a while since we had heard from him and it “It was the first time that he reappeared on the public scene, which meant that this conference had a great impact,” remembers the former director of the Swiss Press Club.
Guy Mettan did not work alone: he organized several conferences on Julian Assange with the help of other supporters of the founder of WikiLeaks. The whistleblower’s partner also came several times to plead his case.
If Geneva has been so active in supporting Julian Assange, it is, among other things, linked to the presence of the United Nations Human Rights Council, according to Guy Mettan.
Julian Assange is being prosecuted for “conspiracy to obtain and disclose information relating to national defense” and will plead guilty. He is expected to be sentenced to 62 months in prison. He has already served them while on remand in the United Kingdom.
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