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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has touched down in Australia after being released from prison in the UK on Monday.
It brings to an end his more than a decade-long legal battle with the US where he fought against extradition and jail time in America.
APAssange’s plane touched down in Canberra, the Australian capital on Wednesday night, according to an online flight tracker.
The native Aussie left the UK after five years in Belmarsh prison on Monday afternoon from London Stansted airport.
Assange, 52, was freed when he agreed to a US plea deal in exchange for no jail time in the States.
He refused to set foot on the American mainland to finalise his bid for freedom.
Instead he flew to the pacific island of Saipan, 7,000 miles away from the US.
Assange had to appear in a US court to do enter his guilty plea for conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents.
Saipan, an American overseas territory – is home to a US district court.
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