Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has walked free from a US court after pleading guilty in a deal to end a years-long legal battle, the BBC reports.
He faces no further prison time and is now on his way back to Australia, following the hearing held in the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory.
Assange was pursued by US prosecutors for leaking a vast amount of secret military information, and had faced a long sentence in a high security prison.
Last week, he signed a deal with the US that would see him plead guilty to one espionage charge instead of the 18 he was originally facing.
He left the UK on Monday after spending five years in prison there fighting extradition to the US. Before that he spent seven years in the Ecuadorean embassy.
His wife, Stella Assange, told the BBC she was “elated” about his release.
