WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been fighting for years to avoid extradition to the United States to face charges related to his organization’s publication of a huge trove of classified documents. On Monday, news came that Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department. This will allow him to walk free and resolve his long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified documents. He has been in custody in a high-security London prison since 2019 as a back-and-forth with the U.K. courts dragged on over whether he can be sent to the U.S.
