Julian Assange shared an emotional embrace with his wife Stella after he landed in a free man following a plea agreement with US authorities to bring the curtain down on his 14 year legal saga.
Mr Assange had been wanted by US authorities following the disclosure of thousands of classified military documents in 2010 and spent more than five years in a British high-security prison after seven years holed up at the Ecuadorean embassy in London .
But he will no longer be pursued by authorities after he pleaded guilty to a charge of espionage which will ban him from entering the US without special permission.
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