Julian Assange live news: WikiLeaks founder arrives at Saipan court accompanied by former Australian prime minister
Assange has accepted a plea deal which should see his return to Australia as a free man. Follow the news live
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Here is a video of the moment Julian Assange arrived at court in Saipan alongside Australia’s ambassador to the US and former prime minister, Kevin Rudd:
On former US vice-president Mike Pence’s views that Julian Assange should be “prosecuted to the full extent of the law”, Australian deputy prime minister Richard Marles said:
I don’t think it serves to go over Mr Assange’s actions many, many years ago, other than to observe that since then, Mr Assange has been incarcerated for many, many years.
And that’s really the point that we are making here.