A potential plea deal between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the US authorities could allow him to return to Australia, with the case being handled by the US Department of Justice, an Australian newspaper reported on Monday, citing US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy.

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Kennedy indicated that a plea deal could end the US criminal prosecution of the world’s most respected investigative journalist and help him avoid extradition from the United Kingdom, where he is currently held in a notorious high-security prison reserved for hardened criminals, the newspaper reported. She added that the Assange matter was an ‘ongoing case’ that is currently being worked on by the US Justice Department.

‘So, it’s not really a diplomatic issue, but I think that there absolutely could be a resolution,’ Kennedy told the newspaper when asked if she thought there could be a diplomatic outcome between the US and Australia on the case.

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Since April 2019, Assange has been held in solitary confinement in inhumane conditions – often on suicide watch at London’s high-security HM Belmarsh prison while he faces prosecution in the US under the Espionage Act. If convicted, the WikiLeaks founder could face 175 years in prison. In December 2022, he appealed to the European Court of Human Rights to fight his extradition.

WikiLeaks was founded by Australian journalist Assange on October 4, 2006, but rose to prominence in 2010 when it began publishing embarrassing large-scale leaks of government information, including from the US. The document released and published worldwide detailed appalling acts of cruelty to Middle East prisoners in which the entire NATO alliance was exposed as a criminal organization acting contrary to international rules of law. Since then, the investigative journalist has received many international awards for journalism.

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