Lawyer says Julian Assange “suffered tremendously“ for free speech

Barry Pollack, Julian Assange’s US lawyer, said the WikiLeaks founder’s prosecution had been “unprecedented“. Pollack and Assange’s Australian lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, were speaking from Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands, where Assange pleaded guilty to violating a U.S. espionage law in a deal that allows him to go home to Australia. Shortly after the hearing, his aircraft departed for Australia’s national capital Canberra, where he is expected to be feted by many MPs as parliament sits this week. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us on Facebook: Find us on Twitter: Find us on Instagram: