伦敦-据报道，朱利安·阿桑奇在北马里亚纳群岛的美国联邦法院认罪美联社.
司法部已达成协议，阿桑奇承认一项共谋非法获取和传播机密信息的重罪。
这位维基解密的创始人抵达位于西太平洋的美国领土，以“正式确定”辩诉交易，”维基解密说。
他被拍到于当地时间周三早上穿着深色西装打着棕色领带抵达北马里亚纳群岛首府塞班的美国地方法院。据美联社报道，他没有回答记者的任何问题。
听证会后，阿桑奇预计将前往他的祖国澳大利亚。
周二早些时候，阿桑奇被拍到登上一架私人飞机联合王国在他与美国检察官达成协议承认一项重罪后。
阿桑奇被指控美国与切尔西·曼宁(Chelsea Manning)合谋，后者作为美国军队的情报分析师，向阿桑奇泄露了数十万份机密文件，包括约25万份美国国务院电报。维基解密在2010年开始公布这些文件。
“朱利安·阿桑奇是自由的，”维基解密在2004年说一份声明周二早些时候发布到社交媒体上。
阿桑奇周一走出了伦敦贝尔马什高级安全监狱五年多了维基解密称，在该设施中。该组织称，他在那里度过了1901天。
“他被伦敦高等法院准予保释，并于下午在斯坦斯特德机场被释放，在那里他登上飞机离开了英国，”维基解密说。
“在一个2×3米的牢房里度过了五年多，一天23小时与世隔绝，他将很快与他的妻子斯特拉·阿桑奇和他们的孩子团聚，他们在监狱里才知道他们的父亲，”维基解密补充道。
斯特拉·阿桑奇(Stella Assange)是阿桑奇的长期合作伙伴，于2022年与阿桑奇结婚，她发表声明称赞了抗议阿桑奇被拘留和美国对他的指控的“令人难以置信的运动”。
斯特拉·阿桑奇说:“这是一场来自世界各地各行各业的人们的运动，他们不仅支持朱利安，也不支持我们和我们的家庭，而是支持朱利安所代表的真理和正义。”“我们仍然需要你的帮助。朱利安的自由开启了新的篇章。”
Julian Assange pleads guilty at hearing in the Northern Mariana Islands: Report
LONDON --Julian Assange has pleaded guilty at a United States federal courthouse in the Northern Mariana Islands, according toThe Associated Press.
The Justice Department had reached an agreement for Assange to plead guilty to a single felony count of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified information.
The WikiLeaks founder arrived at the U.S. territory, located in the western Pacific, to "formalize theplea deal," WikiLeaks said.
He was photographed arriving at the U.S. District Court in Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, Wednesday morning local time wearing a dark suit and brown tie. He did not take any questions from reporters, according to the AP.
Following the plea hearing, Assange is expected to travel to his native Australia.
Assange was photographed earlier Tuesday boarding a private plane in theUnited Kingdomafter he reached a deal with prosecutors in the U.S. to plead guilty to a single felony count.
Assangehad been accusedby the United States of conspiring with Chelsea Manning, who, as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army, leaked to Assange hundreds of thousands of classified documents, including about 250,000 U.S. Department of State cables. WikiLeaks began publishing those documents in 2010.
"Julian Assange is free," WikiLeaks said ina statementposted to social media early on Tuesday.
Assange on Monday walked out ofLondon's Belmarsh High Security Prison aftermore than five yearsat the facility, WikiLeaks said. He'd spent 1901 days there, the group said.
"He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK," WikiLeaks said.
"After more than five years in a 2x3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars," WikiLeaks added.
Stella Assange, a longtime partner who married Assange in 2022, released a statement praising the "incredible movement" that had sprung up to protest Assange's detention and the U.S. charges against him.
"A movement of people from all walks of life, from around the world who support not just Julian, and not just us and our family, but what Julian stands for: Truth and justice," Stella Assange said. "We still need your help. What starts now with Julian's freedom is a new chapter."
