PM Albanese Wants Julian Assange WikiLeaks To Return To Australia Soon

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese expressed his desire that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be brought back to Australia as soon as possible. Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks left England after being released from prison.

"Despite the public's views on Assange (and) its activities, this case has been protracted for too long," Albanese said in parliament of the country.

"There is no benefit whatsoever from his continued detention and we want him to be brought back to Australia," Albanese added.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was released after being willing to confess guilty for violating the US espionage Act, in a deal that would end his British detention and allow him to return to Australia.

Julian Assange 'WikiLeaks', 52, agreed to pleaded guilty to one criminal charge, namely conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defense documents, according to a filing at the US District Court for the North Mariana Islands.

The deal marks the end of a legal story in which Assange spent years in prisons with high-level security in Britain and the Ecuadorian embassy in London and fought allegations of sex crimes in Sweden, while battling extradition to the US.

Julian Assange is seen as a criminal by the US government for potentially endangering government secrets sources, he was hailed as a hero by supporters of press freedom for exposing the mistakes and alleged war crimes.