DW News | Julian Assange makes first public address since release from prison | DW News @dwnews | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has made his first public address since he was released from prison under a plea bargain in June. He was attending a hearing at the human-rights committee of the Council of Europe in France.

Assange says he's still exhausted from his ordeal. He spent most of the last 14 years in the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid arrest, or locked up at the British Belmarsh Prison. In 2010, legal action against Assange started, after hundreds of thousands of leaked documents about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars were published. Let's listen in.

For more on this, we talk to DW Correspondent Jack Parrock who's following this story for us in Strasbourg.

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